PRODUCTIVE COOPERATION NETWORK AMONG SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZE ENTERPRISES: A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN SÃO PAULO STATE (BRAZIL) AND VENETO REGION ( ITALY).

The purpose of this article is to discuss the opportunities and barriers relating to the creation and development of productive cooperation network involving small and medium size enterprises (SME’s), under the industrial restructuring context. Specially the intention is to analyse some particular aspects of the Brazilian context, specially in the state of São Paulo (one of the most industrialized state of Brazil), comparing to another developed region in Italy – that is Veneto. As the main results, the present paper try to point out some possible ways to improve the organization performance supported by this new kind of inter-firm arrangement, through the concept of regional clusters and, finally, to propose some public politics to the state of São Paulo