Welcoming 2023
Extension for the delivery of abstracts for February 3
The fifth edition of the International Seminar on Economic Theory and Policy 2023: "Policy Instruments for Industrial Development and Technological Innovation" is an academic event that will allow you to integrate into the practices and trends of the economy in the world. On this occasion, it collaborates with the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, A.C. (CIDE) and the Young Scholars Initiative (YSI).
In this critical space, the Institute of Economic Research (IIEc) of the UNAM seeks to promote and develop economic theory and policy among researchers, professors, managers, entrepreneurs, and public administrators by linking it with the best national and international experiences and bringing it closer to experts and their research.
We invite you to join this academic event and generate economic policy with a vision of the future.
Justification
The economic crisis caused by COVID-19 highlighted the need for countries to establish industrial development policies to meet the domestic demand for goods and services of the different productive sectors and to promote the recovery of their productive structure. In addition, the breakdown of global value chains and the lack of production of goods, mainly electronics and their derivatives, have left behind the controversy of whether or not to promote a national industrial policy. The new context brought about by the 4th Industrial Revolution focuses the debate on answering the following questions: What should the industrial policy be like? What characteristics should it have, and what should its objectives be? How to promote technological innovation in emerging economies? How to finance innovation and industrial policy? How to avoid or reduce the adverse effects of industrialization?
These questions are part of the economic policy agenda of economists and public policymakers in particular; the theoretical instruments of industrial development policies have left behind the neoliberal approaches that confined industrial policy to the import substitution model and went so far as to argue that the best industrial policy was the one that did not exist. Instead, it has become clear that developed countries are the leading promoters of industrial development and technological innovation policies.
Objective
The 5th edition of SITEPE aims to present instruments, interventions, and public policy proposals to promote industrial development and technological innovation in specific productive sectors and regional value chains in emerging economies.
Thematic lines
Industrial development and technological innovation policies in the field of:
- Agriculture and agribusiness
- Manufacturing and local linkages
- Services and technological innovation
- Traditional financing and new alternatives
- Employment, wages, and industrial policy
- Industrial development with an environmental perspective