Abstract

The main Italian manufacturing sectors are strongly exposed to an international competition and in particular to a competition coming from emergent countries that can count on a cost system ( first of all the cost of work) and restrictions ( first of all the environmental constraints) more propitious for companies.

Despite the financial crisis, all the principal developed countries are creating some strategies to defend and to promote the national manufacturing systems ( the American new administration’s policy for “state aid”)
In this context people should focus on the strategic position of our manufacturing system in the new global division of labor; on the manufacturing reorganization processes that involve the large scale sectors; on the opportunities for small and medium companies to build a defensive strategy for the Italian industry’s interests in an international context and to address the national intervention to those production chains that can be competitive and to the new global scenario.

So the event taking place in Pisa will provide the opportunity to think about the industrial policies and the Italian industry’s perspective in this period of changes due to global crisis.

THURSDAY, MARCH 19

12:00-1:00 pm Plenary - Grey room
What kind of globalization after the financial crisis

2:30-4:30 pm Plenary - Grey room
European big industry reorganization after the crisis


FRIDAY,MARCH 20

9:30-12:00 pm Plenary-Grey room
The new protagonists of Made in Italy

2:00-3:30 pm Plenary- Grey room
Governors in crisis? Relationship between national and regional policies

5:00-6:30 pm Plenary -Grey room
What kind of productive and marketing choices to satisfy more demanding and prudent consumer


SATURDAY MARCH 21

10:30-12:00 pm Plenary- Grey room
Industrial policies in the age of globalization