ANALYSIS OF PRODUCTIVE SECTORS
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2022/2023
- Teacher
- SANDRINE LABORY
- Credits
- 7
- Curriculum
- Politiche e performance pubbliche
- Didactic period
- Secondo Semestre
- SSD
- SECS-P/06
Training objectives
- The objective of the course is to provide students with the instruments necessary to understand the functioning of productive sectors, from the point of View of both internal Dynamics (firm strategies, resources and competencies) and external Dynamics (particularly government intervention in markets). The course examines both horizontal issues, namely affecting all sectors (value creation processes, competitiveness and performance) and vertical issues, namely specific to sectors. The aim is to allow students, once graduated and working in a firm or another organisation, to deeply understand the competitive context in which they operate.
Particular attention will be paid to mega trends arising in productive sectors today, namely the changes in global markets and in technologies that are deeply affecting productive sectors today (Industry 4.0, digital platforms, sustainability, and so on).
The course aims at developing the capacity of students to understand and critically think about these market trends, so as to be able to respond (defining strategies and understanding government interventions) to the competitive challenges which firms are faced with today. Prerequisites
- Basic courses of microeconomics and / or industrial economics.
Course programme
- 1. Concentration, dimension and industrial Dynamics in the competitive scenario of the 21st Century:; globalisation, knowledge economy and tecnological innovation, fourth industrial revolution and smart manufacturing, digital platforms, green economy and competitiveness of Italian and European industry (14 hrs)
2. Innovation and Industry Dynamics: protection of intellectual property, regional innovation Systems and clusters (14 hrs)
3. Internationalisation and multinazionali: Italian multinazionali, the firm and the global competition (14 hrs)
4. Industrial policy in an open and global economy; doing business in Europe (14 hrs) Didactic methods
- Classes are 60% online and 40% in presence. Lecturing, discussion in class, team work and possibly oral presentations (if the total number of registered students allows it); essay writing.
Learning assessment procedures
- Essay writing (50%) and oral presentation or written exam (50%) will test students’knowledge of the issues discussed in the course, as well as their communicative and critical thinking capacity
Reference texts
- Lecture notes available in Powerpoint files downloadable on the home page of the course.
Complementary readings will be indicated at the start of the course.
