A technological paradigm built around the new informational technologies and the microelectronics has been largely discussed in the past decades. Its impacts on the industrial organizational pattern, however, are not sufficiently clear yet. The aim of this paper is to enhance this discussion, examining the effects of the recent productive and technological changes in the industrial organizational patterns. It is argued that these patterns turn out to be more flexible and adaptable, as the institutional environment and the relationships between organizations become more important to succeed. The new model, then, do not take an inflexible and unchangeable configuration, as it has to be adapted to many different realities. It is alleged that this diversity should be taken into consideration for local development policies.