GY404 Half Unit
Topics in Local Economic Development
This information is for the 2011/12 session.
Teacher responsible
Dr Simona Iammarino, Room STC. S410 Availability
MSc Local Economic Development, LSE-Sciences Po Double Degree in Urban Policy and nominated MPhil/PhD Geography students in their first year of registration, but also available to other suitably qualified students. Course content
This course is concerned with both the theoretical underpinnings and practical implementation of specific local economic development policies. It will cover a range of different strategies and a number of different institutional contexts. In the MT the topics are presented by the responsible teacher, whilst in the LT each topic is given by a different academic drawing on their own research in the area. Topics covered vary by year, but are likely to include: changes in competitiveness, linkages and networks for innovation and technology, clusters and local growth coalitions, the role of infrastructure, human and social capital and institutions.
Teaching
10 x two-hour lectures in alternate weeks of the MT and LT. Students will be expected to make presentations and participate actively in lectures. Indicative reading
A Pike, A Rodríguez-Pose & J Tomaney, Local and Regional Development, Routledge, 2006; B Asheim, P Cooke & R Martin, Clusters and Regional Development, Routledge, 2006; S Breschi & F. Malerba (Eds), Clusters, Networks and Innovation, Oxford University Press, 2005; F Belussi and A Sammara (Eds), Business Networks in Clusters and Industrial Districts. The governance of the global value chain, Routledge, 2010; H Schmitz (Ed), Local Enterprises in the Global Economy, Edward Elgar, 2004.; J Cantwell and S Iammarino, Multinational Corporations and European Regional Systems of Innovation, Routledge, 2003; F Sforzi (Ed), The Institutions of Local Development, Ashgate, 2003;; M Storper, The Regional World, Guilford, 1997; F Pyke & W Sengenberger (Eds), Industrial Districts and Local Economic Regeneration, ILO, 1992; M Best, The New Competition: Institutions of Industrial Restructuring, Polity, 1990.
Assessment
Unseen examination (75%) and one extended essay of 2,500 words to be handed in at a specified date in the ST (25%). ^
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