The traditional industrial agglomeration in the region provided a solid foundation, sometimes no too much diversified, for industrial activities and industrial services which operate both within the so-called traditional manufacturing sectors.
The increasingly open global markets related to the traditional manufacturing has generated a strong impact on the competitiveness of these companies, in many cases are undergoing transformations. But it has also given rise to emerging activities, which are characterized by high innovative approach compared to the pre-existing business network, such as technical textiles, housing, and building automation, renewable energy, recycling, mechanical engineering, electronics, advanced management of human resources , etc.
These factors also have driven the diversification of the activities that these companies have traditionally been performing as well as the emergence of new companies with a high-tech base.