INNOVATION POLICIES
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2019/2020
- Teacher
- LAURA RAMACIOTTI
- Credits
- 7
- Curriculum
- Management e politiche pubbliche
- Didactic period
- Primo Semestre
- SSD
- SECS-P/06
Training objectives
- The main aims of this course are the followings: give the students appropriate tools in order to understand the innovative process and highlight the most important issues about the mechanisms of innovation incentives from a systemic policy perspective.
Knowledge: The course analyses the basic matters of the economics of innovation, such as the sources of innovation, the market failure of information and knowledge and the fundamental mechanisms adopted to correct such failures. In a second phase the main theoretical streams which put innovation as a central element in explaining economic growth will be highlighted. Then, applied case studies of public policies for innovation will be analysed. Students will also learn the basic mechanisms underlying the process of policy creation. The student will learn the basic mechanisms of the policy making process. The course will approach the innovative process mainly in a systemic perspective, however the firm's point of view will also be taken into consideration. Specific case studies will be put forward during the course.
Ability: At the end of the course the student will be able to: contextualise the innovative processes in respect to the nature and characteristics of the innovation; identify instruments of support and finance to the innovation processes both at the firm- and public organisation-level and at different administrative levels; comprehend and evaluate different innovation strategies and technological development processes. Prerequisites
- None
Course programme
- The course will be divided in two main parts, one mostly theoretical, the other more applied:
Theoretical framework (36 hours): i) what is innovation; ii) the sources of innovation; iii) market failure of information, intellectual property rights system, open science; iv) learning and path dependency; v) networking; vi) the innovative process: a case study
Applied framework (20 hours): i) technology transfer from university to industry; ii) innovation systems: national and regional; iii) the triple helix; iv) American and European policies; v) national Italian policies; vi) regional policies Didactic methods
- Lectures
Learning assessment procedures
- one hour of written exam with two open questions, and oral test conducted to debate the issues analysed in the written answers and in related topics. The written exam is passed with a mark of 18/30. To accesso the oral test (maximum 5 mark-points) the student must pass the written exam.
The objectives are to verify the comprehension of the key concepts the student dealt within the course, and to verify the ability to critically interpretate the processes studied. Reference texts
- Reference material:
Melissa A. Schilling (2008) "Gestione dell'innovazione" (a cura di Francesco Izzo); McGraw-Hill, seconda edizione, Milano. Capitoli: 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9 interamente, e paragrafo 6.3
Articoli e capitoli di libro:
Paul David (1985), "Clio and the Economics of QWERTY", American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 75, pagg. 332-337
Varian H.R. 1992 (Microeconomic analysis III ed.) cap 1, pp 1-22
Charles Edquist (2005), "Systems of Innovation: Perspectives and Challenges", in Fagerberg J., Mowery D., Nelson R. (eds.) The Oxford Hanbook of Innovation, Oxford University Press
Paul David (2003) "Can Open Science be Protected from the Evolving Regime of IPR Protections?", Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (par. 2)
Malerba, F.,(2000), “Economia dell’innovazione”; Carrocci Editore, Roma; Capitoli: 3, 5, 6
Bianchi, P., Labory, S., (2009), Le nuove politiche industriali dell'Unione europea, il Mulino, capp VIII, X
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