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ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT OF INNOVATION
GIOVANNI DOSI
Academic year2023/24
CourseECONOMICS
Code370PP
Credits6
PeriodSemester 2
LanguageEnglish

ModulesAreaTypeHoursTeacher(s)
ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT OF INNOVATIONSECS-P/08LEZIONI42
GIOVANNI DOSI unimap
MARIA ENRICA VIRGILLITO unimap
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Learning outcomes
Knowledge

This course offers an integrated analysis of the “anatomy of the capitalist engine” of generation and exploitation of technological, organizational and institutional innovations.

Drawing upon a perspective based on complexity and evolutionary economics, the course will focus on the mechanisms of knowledge accumulation, since the First Industrial Revolution.

Knowledge structures and organizational forms will be analysed, both theoretically and empirically.

Industrial structures will be studied as out-of-equilibrium emergent properties, deriving from the interactions of heterogenous, boundedly rational agents.

 

Assessment criteria of knowledge

In class interactions and discussion sessions

Skills

Students will acquire a detailed knowledge of the microeconomics of innovation, organization theory and industrial structure.

Assessment criteria of skills

Skills will be eavlauted in the final exam

Behaviors

Analytical thinking

Assessment criteria of behaviors

Active student participation during classes.

Prerequisites

Introductory Microeconomics 

Teaching methods

The lectures will be held in presence.

Syllabus

Topics

  • Development, Growth, and Economic Coordination

  • Innovation as an evolutionary process

  • Behaviours, Learning, and Organizations in Complex and Evolving Environments

  • Formal Models of Learning, Innovation, and Diffusion

  • Knowledge, Procedures, and Input–Output Relations

  • The Structure and Evolution of Industries

Bibliography

- G. Dosi (2023). The Foundations of Complex Evolving Economies: Part One: Innovation, Organization, and Industrial Dynamics. Oxford University Press. Chapters 1,2,3,4 and selected contents of Chapters 5,6,9.

 

- Slides and lecture notes

Assessment methods

The exam will consist in a written take-home exam.

Updated: 28/01/2024 17:27