Module A (Prof. Marco Bellandi)
Application of theories of local development and industrial districts, in terms of methods of analysis of various configurations and relations between the territory and industries
Module B (Prof. Annalisa Caloffi) Theories and methods for the analysis of local industrial, innovation and development policies
Compulsory MODULE A (to be confirmed at lesson):
1) Becattini G., Bellandi M., De Propris L. (2011). Industrial Districts: the Contemporary Debate. Economia e politica industriale, 38 (3), 53-75
2) Bellandi M. (2003). Industrial clusters and districts in the new economy. Some perspectives and cases. In Sugden R., Hartung Cheng R. and Meadows G. R. (eds.), Urban and regional prosperity in a globalised new economy, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 196-219
3) Dei Ottati G. (2003). Exit, voice and the evolution of industrial districts: the case of the post‐World War II economic development of Prato. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 27 (4), 501–522.
4) Canello J., Pavone P. (2016). Mapping the Multifaceted Patterns of Industrial Districts: A New Empirical Procedure with Application to Italian Data. Regional Studies, 50 (8), 1374-1387
5) Bellandi M., Caloffi A. (2010). Forms of industrial development in Chinese specialized towns and types of challenges to European manufacturing SMEs: an Italian perspective. In Lenihan, H., Andreosso-O'Callaghan B., Hart M. (eds.), SMEs in a Globalised World. Survival and Growth Strategies on Europe's Geographical Periphery. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 113-132
6) Becattini G., Musotti F. (2003). Measuring the district effect - Reflections on the literature. BNL Quarterly Review, no. 226, 259-290
7) Biggeri M. and Ferrannini A. (2014), “Sustainable Human Development at the local level”, in Biggeri M. and Ferrannini A. (2014), Sustainable Human Development: A new territorial and people-centred perspective, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. Ch. 1 including the appendix 1.
8) Bellandi M., De Propris, L., & Santini, E. (2019). An evolutionary analysis of industrial districts: The changing multiplicity of production know-how nuclei. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 43 (1), 187–204
9) Bellandi, M., De Propris, L., & Santini, E. (2020). A Place-Based View on Industry 4.0 in Local Productive Systems. L’industria. Rivista di economia e politica industriale, XLI (1), 51-69
PARTE B:
Compulsory
1) Bellandi, M., & Caloffi, A. (2016). Industrial policies in a Marshallian-based multilevel perspective. European Planning Studies, 24(4), 687-703.
2) Barca F., McCann P. and Rodríguez-Pose A. (2012), ‘The case for regional development intervention: Place-based versus place-neutral approaches’, Journal of Regional Science, 52(1): 134-152
3) Iammarino, S., Rodríguez-Pose, A., & Storper, M. (2019). Regional inequality in Europe: evidence, theory and policy implications. Journal of economic geography, 19(2), 273-298.
4) Lambooy, J. G., & Boschma, R. A. (2001). Evolutionary economics and regional policy. The Annals of regional science, 35(1), 113-131.
5) Bellandi M. & Caloffi A. (2010). An Analysis of Regional Policies Promoting Networks for Innovation. European Planning Studies, 18 (1), 67-82
6) McCann, P., & Ortega-Argilés, R. (2013). Modern regional innovation policy. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 6(2), 187-216.
7) Caloffi, A., & Mariani, M. (2018). Regional policy mixes for enterprise and innovation: A fuzzy-set clustering approach. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 36(1), 28-46
8) Schot, J., & Steinmueller, W. E. (2018). Three frames for innovation policy: R&D, systems of innovation and transformative change. Research Policy, 47(9), 1554-1567.
9) Bours, S. A., Wanzenböck, I., & Frenken, K. (2021). Small wins for grand challenges. A bottom-up governance approach to regional innovation policy. European Planning Studies, 1-28.
10) Tödtling, F., Trippl, M., & Desch, V. (2021). New directions for RIS studies and policies in the face of grand societal challenges. https://epub.wu.ac.at/8125/1/Toe_etal_New%20RIS%20dirctions_Grand%20Challenges_geist_wp_2101.pdf
ONLY FOR ATTENDING STUDENTS: POSSIBILITY TO MAKE A PRESENTATION ON TOPICS RELATED TO MODULES A AND B, AND TO REDUCE THE READING LIST FOR THE FINAL EXAMINATION
Learning Objectives
- Knowledge of theorical and historical foundation of models of local productive development, in particular Marshallian external economies, industrial districts and models of human development, policies of productive development and innovation in the international literature
- Capacities of personal and analytical assessment of local and industrial development issues in developed and emerging countries. It is based on approaches of industrial economics and policy, and on theories and models of open local development and of policies of local industrial development.
The course contributes to the cultural background of the graduate students on a fundamental stream of contemporary economic reflections on local development, human development, policies of productive development. This aims at contributing to job placement typical of the LM ED, and at favouring the access to post-graduate programs of development economics and local productive systems
Prerequisites
Microeconomics
Teaching Methods
Module A and Module B have each approx. a 24 hours length
Overall: Lectures (32 hours), exercises (6 hours), seminars (4 hours); attending students may elaborate presentations on cases related to the topics of the course and some of them are discusses within the laboratories of the course (6 hours)
Handouts and other materials will be distributed on moodle
Further information
If a student misses more than 30% of the scheduled class hours he will not be considered as attending student.
In any case, if an attending student misses a class, it will be his/her responsibility to catch up with what he missed (notes, readings, assignments, etc.).
Type of Assessment
Written and oral examination for NON attending students.
Oral examination (preliminary written answers) on a 30 points scale; a written essay on parts of the program for students attending the classes with a bonus of 1-3 points adding to the final mark.
Course program
Part A:
- Some preliminary concepts on the relations between industrial economics and policies and local industrial development, with particular regard to industrial districts and clusters (readings: 1,2);
- System-based approaches to support to productive development within evolving local/regional contexts, with particular regard to the role of specific public goods (readings: 1, 2);
- Methods of analysis and comparisons, with respect to the identification and evaluation of types and paths of development and change of local productive systems, considering the forms of enterprises and teams, local labour markets, social capital, technological change, international strategies, local human development in emerging countries (readings: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9).
Part B:
- Theoretical approaches on local industrial, innovation and development policies
- Analyses of local industrial, innovation and development policies (readings: 5, 7)
Sustainable Development Goals 2030
This course contributes to achieving the UN goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development