B016470 - LOCAL AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT

English

Foundations of local industrial development, empirical investigations, typologies and case-studies of local productive systems, such as industrial districts, in more advanced and emerging economies.
System policies for innovation and multi-level industrial development

LETTURE OBBLIGATORIE PER L’ESAME
Foundations of local industrial development, empirical investigations, case-studies:
1) Becattini G., Bellandi M., De Propris L. (2011). Industrial Districts: the Contemporary Debate. Economia e politica industriale, 38 (3), 53-75.
2) Becattini G., Musotti F. (2003). Measuring the district effect - Reflections on the literature. BNL Quarterly Review, no. 226, 259-290
3) 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.
4) Bellandi, M., Cecchetti, M.C., Santini, E. (2023). Evolutions in industrial districts and local productive systems. In Bianchi, P., Labory, S., Tomlinson, P. (eds.). Handbook of Industrial Development, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 166-182.
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) Bellandi, M., De Propris, L. (2021). Local Productive Systems’ Transitions to Industry 4.0+. Sustainability, 13, 13052, 1-17.

System policies for innovation and multi-level industrial development:
7) Reinert, E.S. (2020). Industrial policy: A long-term perspective and overview of theoretical arguments. UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, Working Paper Series (IIPP WP 2020-04). Available at: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/public-purpose/wp2020-0.
8) Bellandi, M., & Caloffi, A. (2016). Industrial policies in a Marshallian-based multilevel perspective. European Planning Studies, 24(4), 687-703.
9) 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
10) Crespi G., Fernandez-Arias E., Stein E. H. (Eds.) (2014). Rethinking productive development. Sound policies and institutions for economic transformation (Synopsis). Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) series. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
11) Feldman, M., Guy, F., Iammarino, S. (2021). Regional income disparities, monopoly and finance. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 14 (1), 25–49.
12) Isaksen, A., Trippl, M. (2017). Innovation in space: the mosaic of regional innovation patterns, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Volume 33, Issue 1, 1 January 2017, Pages 122–140.

ONLY FOR ATTENDING STUDENTS: POSSIBILITY TO MAKE A PRESENTATION (IN CLASS OR AT THE ORAL EXAM) ON A TOPIC CHOSEN WITH THE TEACHER, AND TO HAVE A SHORTENED LIST OF READINGS FOR THE FINAL EXAM

- Knowledge of theorical and historical foundation of models of local industrial development, in particular Marshallian external economies, industrial districts, clusters, and multi-level policies of industrial 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 Master Courses in Economic Sciences and Development, and at favoring the access to post-graduate programs of development economics and local productive systems

Microeconomics

Overall: Lectures (32 hours), exercises (6 hours), seminars (6 hours); attending students may elaborate presentations on cases related to the topics of the course and some of them are discussed within the laboratories of the course (4 hours)
Handouts and other materials will be distributed on moodle

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.).

- Written and oral examination for NON attending students.
- Oral examination (preliminary written answers) on a 30 points scale; a presentation on research for ATTENDING students with a bonus of 1-3 points adding to the final mark.

(Numbers: referring to lectures in the reading section)
- 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);
- System-based approaches to support to productive development within evolving local/regional contexts, with particular regard to the role of specific public goods (readings: 3);
- 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 (readings: 2, 4, 5, 6).
- Theoretical approaches on industrial, innovation and development policies (readings: 7)
- Analyses of multi-level industrial, innovation and development policies (readings: 8, 9)
- Applications to regional disparities, monopolistic relations, emerging countries (readings: 10, 11)
- Regional innovation systems (12)

This course contributes to achieving the UN goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 9, 11