Knowledge Transfer and Internet Technology in Industrial Districts

The major aim of this paper is to analyse how Internet can impact on knowledge transfer in Industrial Districts (IDs). In order to achieve this goal after the description of principal IDs characteristics and of the knowledge transfer process in IDs we summarise the degree of adoption of Internet technologies in Italian IDs and finally we transpose the knowledge transfer model in the web scenario. In the conclusions we highlight the main causes of resistance to the adoption of Internet in IDs.