Barcelona Competitiveness Summer School

This program focuses on the fundamentals of job creation and prosperity. The program emphasizes the government's role in this endeavor through soft industrial policy investments and policy reforms, identified at the cluster level in collaboration with the private sector and scaled up to redefine the country’s industrial policies

This program combines three days of in-person sessions at IESE Business School in Barcelona with two field visits:

Module 1—Cluster Policies: Case studies to introduce agglomeration economics, industrial districts, or clusters
Module 2—Industry Analysis: The concepts of Industrial Organization and competition within a specific industry, applying Porter’s 5 forces to multiple examples.
Module 3—Sustainability: This module introduces the concept of sustainability as a component of company and cluster strategies.
The two field visits to sector specific public infrastructure, a testing centre for e-motors and cars, and a joint wastewater facility for the Leather Cluster.

Barcelona Competitiveness Summer School

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