Abstract

DIEZ, José Ignacio  and  EMILOZZI, Analía. Redes organizacionales y desarrollo económico en ciudades medias: los casos Bahía Blanca y Río Cuarto. Cuad. urbano [online]. 2015, vol.18, n.18, pp.21-48. ISSN 1853-3655.

In the last decades medium size cities have recovered their importance in urban systems, both in the feld of scientific literature as on the plane of development strategies in a world scale. As it happened on the ´60s, these towns are acquiring preponderance as main com-ponents on regional development policies, being recognized as key actors on the stimula-tion of industrial possibilities for peripheral territories. Among the instruments aimed at promoting growth, the literature emphasizes the creation of institutional networks, as an element capable of encouraging innovation and technological change. In this sense, it is argued that in small and medium cities that are more successful in the global economy, the existence of institutional thickness has been crucial to ensure territorial competitiveness. This paper analyzes how the institutional networks operate in two Argentinian towns: Bahía Blanca and Rio Cuarto, trying to understand the way in which organizations can improve the competitive conditions and development possibilities of those territories.

Keywords : Institutional thickness; economic development; medium size cities; innovation.

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