De-localization, Investments and Knowledge Transfer: The Case of ‘Triveneto’ Industrial SMEs’ De-localization in Romania

Contemporary Drivers of Local Development

“…• The presence of a community, sharing a homogeneous system of values in terms of work ethic, family values, a sense of belonging; • A large number of small and medium-sized enterprises specialized in one or few phases of the production process; • The presence of strong and, as a rule, informal links among firms, creating an atypical system of relations, where co-operation and competition coexist; • Widespread competency and know-how, mostly of a technical type, related to the dominant industry of the area, thus the specific level of competence of the local population is quite high; • The involvement, not necessarily from the beginning, of institutional players; this involvement is the expression of the full participation of all the components of the local community in the working of the AS (Trevisan 2006).…”