Key sectors

The productive economic system of Emilia-Romagna features activities in numerous industrial districts. Their businesses have contributed to the socio-economic development of the region in terms of widespread wealth and employment and the ability to compete on an international level, generating a considerable opening on an international scale. 

Emilia-Romagna now boasts strong industrial specialisation throughout the production chain, in many cases located in specific areas also overlapping between one province and another.

Some of these companies are now present across the entire region, with activities decentralised also on a national and international level, but which still keep their centre of gravity in the areas of high concentration of Emilia-Romagna which found their excellence on a system of knowledge based on local expertise.

Figure: territorial specialisations by manufacturing industry sector in Emilia-Romagna