Industrial policy

The Role of Industrial Policies in Emerging Countries within Renewable Energy Global Value Chains: An Application of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)

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The Role of Industrial Policies in Emerging Countries within Renewable Energy Global Value Chains: An Application of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)

The Role of Industrial Policies in Emerging Countries within Renewable Energy Global Value Chains:
An Application of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)

In November I visited the University of Brunei Darussalam and given a talk on the application of QCA to investigate industrial policies.

Here you can find the ppt

Making sense of global value chain-oriented policies: The trifecta of tasks, linkages, and firms

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Making sense of global value chain-oriented policies: The trifecta of tasks, linkages, and firms

Making sense of global value chain-oriented policies: The trifecta of tasks, linkages, and firms

The editorial article of a special issue on GVC oriented policy in the Journal of International Business Policy with Ari Van Assche and Carlo Pietrobelli.

Here you can download the article and here the special issue.

Here you can read the article in Italian.

Clusters in the Caribbean: Understanding their Characteristics, Defining Policies for their Development

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Clusters in the Caribbean: Understanding their Characteristics, Defining Policies for their Development

Clusters in the Caribbean: Understanding their Characteristics, Defining Policies for their Development

With Elisa Giuliani, I have published a IADB Discussion Paper discussing clusters in the Caribbean. A desk review of 32 clusters distributed across the Caribbean identifying three groups of clusters are identified: rising, innovative, and sluggish.

The working paper is available here

Business Development Service Centres in Italy: close to firms far from innovation

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World Review of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development, 4(1): 38-55 

The article is co-authored with Carlo Pietrobelli.

The notion of ‘Business Development Service’ (BDS) is quickly gaining popularity among policy makers and scholars of management, industrial organization and development. Similarly, attention is increasingly paid to the institutions and centers offering BDS, as an essential part of the ‘local’ or ‘regional innovation system’. The paper analyses the experience of BDS Centres in three highly developed Italian regions, Emilia Romagna, Lombardia and Veneto, and evaluates their performance and contribution to the regional industrial, and notably SME, development. The paper is based on a survey of 30 BDS Centres and it uses quantitative together with qualitative evidence.

Download the pdf, JA WRSTSD 2007-01

Upgrading in global value chains: lessons from Latin America clusters

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World Development, 33(4): 549-73

The article is in collaboration with Elisa Giuliani and Carlo Pietrobelli.

It has been shown that clustering helps local enterprises in industrial districts overcome growth constraints and compete in distant markets in advanced and less developed countries. Nevertheless, recent contributions have stressed that more attention needs to be paid to external linkages and to the role played by global buyers to foster upgrading at cluster levels. In this study, we contribute to this debate focusing on the analysis of the relationships existing between clustering, global value chains, upgrading and sectoral patterns of innovation in Latin America. We find that sectoral specificities matter and influence the mode and the extent of upgrading in clusters integrated in global value chains.
Download the pdf, JA World Development 2005-04