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Abstract

This volume offers an approach to the development problems that affect production systems that are based on the relation between high technology promotion, productivity increases and the consolidation of networks of firms. It is a collective effort that has grown out of the EU-ALFA project ‘European-Latin American Network for Research and Learning in Industrial Development Policy’, consisting of a large group of Italian, English, Dutch, Costa Rican, Mexican, Chilean, Spanish, US, Argentinean, Nicaraguan experts and, more in general, academics based in European, North, Central and South American institutions.