Purpose

This paper aims to analyse to what extent Italian industrial districts (IDs), with their traditional manufacturing specialization, experimented a territorial servitisation process in terms of spread of specifically professional and technological knowledge-intensive business services’ activities over the period 2012–2018.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper articulates knowledge-intensive business services activities in two types, technological knowledge-intensive business services and professional knowledge-intensive business services. It tracks their growth and their co-location with manufacturing sectors in Italian IDs by means of firm employment data and location quotients. Firm employment data is extracted from Statistical Archive of Active firms (ASIA) data set provided by Italian National Institute for Statistics (ISTAT). ASIA data is matched with ISTAT territorial identification of Italian local labour systems and IDs.

Findings

In 2018, Italian IDs featured, next to their traditional over-specialisation in manufacturing activities, an under-specialisation in knowledge-intensive business services’ activities. Nevertheless, the dynamic analysis carried out over the period 2012–2018 shows that IDs firm employment in technological knowledge-intensive business services and professional knowledge-intensive business services grew at a higher rate than the national average.

Originality/value

The novelty of this paper is to distinguish between technological knowledge-intensive business services and professional knowledge-intensive business services and to measure the presence and the growth of these two different types of knowledge-intensive business services in Italian IDs.

中文翻译：

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意大利工业区的领土服务化：技术和专业 KIBS 的作用

目的

本文旨在分析在 2012-2018 年期间，意大利工业区 (ID) 在何种程度上以其传统的制造业专业化在特定专业和技术知识密集型商业服务活动的传播方面试验了地域服务化过程。

设计/方法/方法

本文将知识密集型商业服务活动分为技术知识密集型商业服务和专业知识密集型商业服务两类。它通过企业就业数据和位置商数来跟踪它们的增长以及它们与意大利 ID 中制造业的共同定位。企业就业数据提取自意大利国家统计局 (ISTAT) 提供的活跃企业统计档案 (ASIA) 数据集。ASIA 数据与意大利当地劳工系统和身份证的 ISTAT 地域识别相匹配。

发现

2018 年，除了传统的制造业活动过度专业化之外，意大利 ID 还表现出在知识密集型商业服务活动方面的专业化不足。尽管如此，2012-2018 年期间进行的动态分析表明，ID 公司在技术知识密集型商业服务和专业知识密集型商业服务中的就业增长速度高于全国平均水平。

原创性/价值

本文的新颖之处在于区分技术知识密集型商业服务和专业知识密集型商业服务，并衡量这两种不同类型的知识密集型商业服务在意大利 ID 中的存在和增长。