Purpose – This paper presents the first results of an ongoing research project aimed to define a general model to identify and assess performance and impacts of the Technological Districts (TDs). In particular, the idea is to provide a methodological framework, a system of indicators and a set of related tools able to drive the evaluation, the management and the reporting of the performance and the impacts of the TDs. The logic of the work is to define a model that may be objective, rigorous and able to become standard according to scientific, operative and methodological perspectives. Design/methodology/approach – At strategic level, the adoption of an integrated and multidimensional approach has been used for the elaboration of the general model. In particular, the model of the Strategy Map (Kaplan and Norton, 2000) has been coherently declined for a TD; the dimensions of performance and a set of scorecards have been defined and then integrated systemically in the unique and coordinated framework of the Strategy Map. Specifically, great attention has been paid to avoid confusion on contents and methods as well as avoiding overlapping of economic, financial, managerial performance and impact dimensions that often have characterized the academic and policy literature. Originality/value – This paper contributes at theoretical and practical level to improve the managerial and policy methods and tools to identify, assess, manage and report the performance and the impact of the TDs. Till now, in fact, it is possible to trace a lot of “cold fusions” about frameworks, aspects, dimensions, metrics, often very different among them and difficult to integrate and to became a general modeling. The originality and the value of the paper resides then in its attempt to improve and to let more shared and transparent the informative quality on which the TDs are called to operate and report to the stakeholders, in particular regulators and public organizations. Practical implications – The definition of this general model has also the objective to support the elaboration of a structured set of managerial and policy implications able to drive respectively the management in the strategy formulation and implementation, as well as in the actions for the performance improvement, and the decision-makers in the elaboration of effective policies of development and correct evaluation of the impact of the TDs on the different places.