• BES
• Equity maps
• Italian textile Industrial districts
• SAE
• Synthetic indexes

The aim of this work is to investigate the well-being of industrial districts primarily exploiting available BES data. In other words, it is an attempt to assess well-being of industrial districts through BES lens. Different economic parameters able to represent the “district economic well-being” have been analyzed and other BES indicators are applied to include multiple social dimensions as elements able to describe the role of “Marshall’s externalities”, which, according to Marshall and Becattini, determines the competitiveness and reactive capacity of the district. Summarizing, our study intends to explore if the Marshallian district connotation referred as “industrial atmosphere” is also an “industrial and equitable well-being atmosphere”.