Innovations And Economic Geography

Timetable

Thursday 15.00-16.30, conference room 153, Faculty of Human Geography and Planning, Collegium Geographicum, ul. Krygowskiego 10, 61-680 Poznań.

Introductory classes: 6 X 2022 and 13 X 2022. 

Module aim (aims)

• to present the most important issues in innovation studies, the role of innovativeness in the socio-economic development and examples of innovations changing the World.
• to explore key, current concepts in economic geography
• to understand and debate how regions and countries are being transformed through the investments and the operation of global production networks involving transnational corporations, states, interest groups and technology.

Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant)

Basic language skills in English, allowing oral presentations and discussions

Syllabus

 

• Innovations and innovativeness: Definitions, divisions, indicators
• Theoretical Foundations of Innovation Studies, Diffusion of Innovations, Effects of Innovations on Growth and Employment
• National and Regional Innovation Systems and Policies
• Knowledge, Knowledge-based Organisation and the Knowledge-based Economy
• The Changing Contours of the Global Economy. Globalization. Tangled Webs: Unravelling Complexity in the Global Economy
• Technological Change: ‘Gales of Creative Destruction’, Industry 4.0: Effects of Digitalisation on Industries and Societies
• Transnational Corporations (TNC): The Primary Movers and Shapers of the Global Economy, Relationship between TNCs and States
• Regional and local effects of investments – industrial location, negotiations, conflicts of interest, corporate social responsibility, sustainable development
• Global Production Networks and Global Value Chains
• Winning and Losing: Where You Live (and Where You Work) Really Matters
• The Picture in Different Sectors: Automobile Industries, Agro-food, Clothing, Furniture, Electronics
• The Picture in Different Sectors: Advanced Business Services, Logistics and Distribution Services

 

Reading list

• Dicken, P., 2015. Global Shift: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy. 7^th edition, SAGE.
• Aoyama Y., Murphy, J.T., Hanson, S., 2011. Key Concepts in Economic Geography. SAGE Publications Ltd.
• Nelson, R., Mowery, D., Fagerberg J. (eds.), 2004. The Oxford Handbook of Innovation. Oxford University Press.
• Oslo Manual, 2005. Guidelines for collecting and interpreting innovation data. 3^rd OECD, Eurostat.
• Schwab K., 2016. The Fourth Industrial Revolution. Random House Lcc Us.