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Laboratory
Italy
and the Global Economy: Foreign Economic Policy and Policies
of Internationalization
The
Laboratory conducts research and consultations on topics of
the internationalization of Italian economy. Particular
attention is focused on policies and instruments that support
and promote the international presence of Italian companies
and the Italian economic system.
Projects
in progress
Competitiveness and internationalization of the Italian
economic system: the key role of business services
Considering the relevance of services
in international exchanges and in the internationalization
processes, the basic aim of the joint IAI-Fondazione Manlio
Masi-Ice project is to discuss different kinds of services and
their role in stimulating competitiveness and
internationalization of Italian companies. There are three
main issues: 1) Italian international exchanges and
investments in the service sector; 2) case studies in order to
individualize trends of growth, localization factors and
specificities of production services with particular attention
to their perspectives of international expansion; 3) proposals
on instruments as well as policies for the development of
business services. In this perspective, a "best practice"
approach will be used with the comparison of other countries
in terms of: business services endowment; presence of
qualified companies in the advanced tertiary sector, and their
contribution to the active and passive internationalization
process of regions; and effective policies dedicated to the
growth and internationalization of services. The choice may
fall on European countries such as Germany, France, Spain and
Austria. The programme will expand on a 14 month term with a
partition of the activities in two phases: a preliminary phase
(4 months) devoted to the definition of the methodological
approach, as well as of the theoretical and empirical bases of
the research. The second phase foresees the development and
the completion of the research path with the elaboration of
papers that have the support of a wide range of eternal
experts: scholars, consultants, other Institutes' researchers,
representatives from institutions and firms. Papers will be
presented during a workshop and collected in a volume to be
published in a Fondazione Masi series. Within the
project took place in Rome the international conference
on "Italy's external competitiveness".
Programme
Conference
website
Internationalization of Southern
Italy's
enterprises and districts within the new scenery of global competition - analises and proposals
This multi-year research
project, launched by the IAI Laboratory on January 2005 in
cooperation with the Studies and Research Association for
Southern Italy (SRM), aims at analysing the new ways of
international integration of Italy's productive system, with a
particular reference to the internationalisation prospects of
Southern Italy productive system. The research activities are
mainly centred on:
- analyses of the main characteristics
and recent trends of the Italian sectorial/local
internationalisation process;
- study of the new internationalisation strategies of Italian enterprises (export
choices, cooperation agreements and multi-national production)
and of internationalisation models of the Italian industrial
districts;
- monitoring of the production-international
reorganisation and of the consequences on the local/international
development process of Italy's local systems; (iv) policy
strategies for the support of Southern Italy
internationalisation process;
- specific proposals for the
penetration of Southern Italian enterprises in the new
productive network.
The fourth year of the project ended on
February, 2009 with
the publication and presentation of a book during a
joint
conference between the two institutes.
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