INDUSTRIAL POLICY AND SUSTAINABILITY
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2017/2018
- Teacher
- SANDRINE LABORY
- Credits
- 9
- Curriculum
- Small and medium enterprises(SMEs) in international markets
- Didactic period
- Secondo Semestre
- SSD
- SECS-P/06
Training objectives
- The objective of the course is to provide students with the knowledge and the instruments to understand industrial dynamics and their policy implications, with particular emphasis on issues related to sustainability and small and medium-sized enterprises.
The course aims at developing students' ability to understand and analyze competitive challenges and structural changes which firms are facing today, in order to be able to develop a "vision of the world" which is essential for managers to define appropriate strategies and for economists to take part in the policy debate. Prerequisites
- Basic courses in Economics and Management, especially Microeconomics and Industrial Economics.
Course programme
- The course is articulated in lectures, discussions and seminars with students on the following groups of issues:
1. Imperfect competition and market structure: theory and application of the analysis to current competitive challenges related to globalisation, knowledge-based economy, and the fourth industrial revolution (smart manufacturing) (19 hours)
2. Industrial policy (its return in the 21st century, why industrial policy and and what industrial policy in the current competitive context outlined in first part of the course) (19 hours)
3. The concept of sustainability; green industrial policy; policy for sustainable growth and resilience (18 hours)
4. SMEs: characteristics, performance, clusters (16 hours) Didactic methods
- Normal lectures as well as class discussions, teamwork, oral presentations and essay writing
Learning assessment procedures
- The knowledge of issues presented and discussed during class will be evaluated, as well as students' ability for critical thinking and communication, through essay writing (50% of assessment) and oral presentations (50%).
Reference texts
- For all students:
Detailed lecture notes are provided by the Professor in the form of powerpoint files dowloadable from the course' site.
In addition:
Brynjolfsson E., McAfee A. (2014), The second machine age. Work, progress and prosperity in a time of brilliant technologies, W.W. Norton, New York.
For the basics of industrial economics, analysis of market structure and firm strategies:
Martin S. (2010), Industrial Organization in Context, Oxford University Press.
