MODELLING INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS FOR PERFORMANCE EVALUATION

To analyse and evaluate the different types of COllaborative DEmand & Supply NETworks (CODESNET) is becoming mandatory to pursue effective industrial politics of development for Small-Medium Enterprises (SMEs). The analysis of complex industrial bodies, like clusters of cooperating enterprises, must be based on a formal unambiguous model. The model by which all analyses under development within the CODESNET project are driven, describes a cluster of SMEs in terms of its structure, its organisation and its interactions with the external socio-economic context. From these viewpoints it is possible to represent how efficiently the multi-SME industrial body can operate, be managed and interact with the external markets. The paper aims to give a comprehensive presentation of the SME network model and the “analysis road map” developed in the EU-funded CODESNET project.