B0033 - ECOSISTEMI IMPRENDITORIALI, SOSTENIBILITA' E INNOVAZIONE

Learning outcomes

The course focuses on the main features of entrepreneurial ecosystems, with special emphasis on the interaction between institutions and economic agents. It introduces to the use of quantitative methods for the analysis of innovative entrepreneurship and the evaluation of its environmental, social, and economic sustainability. At the end of the course students will have achieved the knowledge necessary to support the choice of investment strategies and the implementation of public policies aimed at fostering the emergence of entrepreneurial ecosystems.

Course contents

The course provides the fundamentals for the study of entrepreneurial ecosystems, from the perspective of both firms and policy makers.

Structural features of network industries. Industry cases: Telecommunications; Transport networks; Non-obvious networks.

Readings/Bibliography

Simon C. Parker (2018). The Economics of Entrepreneurship. Cambridge University Press, 2nd edition.

Carbonara, E., & Santarelli, E. (2022). The Impact of Constitutional Protection of Economic Rights on Entrepreneurship: A Taxonomic Survey. Foundations and Trends in Entrepreneurship.

Baumol, W. J. (1996). Entrepreneurship: Productive, Unproductive, and Destructive. Journal of Business Venturing, 11(1): 3-22.

Teaching methods

Lectures, class discussion, courseworks.

Assessment methods

Coursework (60%), final written exam (40%), for the purposes of which students will need to answer four out of five questions within 45 minutes. For students unable to attend the lessons: a final written exam, in which they will have to answer 8 open-ended questions and 4 multiple-choice questions within 90 minutes.

Grading criteria:

18-23: the student has sufficient preparation and analytical skills, spread however, over just few topics taught in the course, the overall jargon is correct

24-27: the student shows and adequate preparation at a technical level with some doubts over the topics. Good, yet not to articulate analytical skills with the use of a correct jargon

28-30: Great knowledge about most of the topics taught in the course, good critical and analytical skills, good usage of the specific jargon

30L: excellent and in depth knowledge of all the topics in the course, excellent critical and analytical skills, excellent usage of specific jargon.

Teaching tools

Other teaching material, including slides used during the lectures and papers will be made available to students on a weekly basis through the 'Virtuale' platform.

Office hours

See the website of Enrico Santarelli