ABSTRACT
The concept of endogenous development is often linked to endogenous industrialization processes, that is, to the economic dynamics of cities and regions. Its growth and structural change would be founded on the expansion of industrial activity and the use of development potential existing in the territory (D’Arcy and Guissani, 1996; Bianchi, 1998). At least two approaches can be identified among the authors that investigate and theorize on endogenous industrialization, one whose analyses are related to the organization of production and another that considers endogenous industrialization one of the paths of development for cities and regions.
