When Belton Fleisher proposed us to organize a conference on "Small Business Industrial Clusters in China and Italy" (SBICCI) we found his idea extremely appealing and were happy to suggest the "Gabriele d'Annunzio" University in Chieti-Pescara as a possible location for this interesting event. This seemed to us a quite natural choice: according to the 8th General Census of Industry and Services, the region Abruzzo, where Pescara is located, hosts about a fourth of the industrial districts in Southern Italy (ISTAT, 2012), and this relatively high presence of districts has promoted the interest of the local political and academic institutions.
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