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GREEN ECONOMY AND INNOVATION
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GREEN ECONOMY AND INNOVATION
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Anno accademico 2025/2026
- Codice attività didattica
- CPS0969C
- Docenti
- Elena Vallino (Titolare dell'insegnamento)
- Corso di studio
- Master's Degree Course in Economic analysis and policy (Classification of Degree LM-56 R) [0309M22]
- Anno
- 1° anno
- Periodo
- Secondo semestre
- Tipologia
- Caratterizzante
- Crediti/Valenza
- 6
- SSD attività didattica
- SECS-P/06 - economia applicata
- Erogazione
- Tradizionale
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Frequenza
- Consigliata
- Tipologia esame
- Scritto
- Tipologia unità didattica
- modulo
- Insegnamento integrato
- INNOVATION AND SUSTAINABILITY (CPS0969)
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Sommario insegnamento
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Obiettivi formativi
The course aims at exploring in a critical way the relation of innovation to environment, economic growth and development.
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Risultati dell'apprendimento attesi
Students will be able to master the main trajectories of the debate on innovation, green economy and development. They will be able to apply the theory to case studies in different domains of the economy.
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Programma
The course will address the following topics.
-Issues related to economic growth, sustainability, de-growth and the "Beyond GDP" debate
-The relation between innovation and well-being
-Eco-innovations, indicators, and policies
-Eco-innovations and job creation (Green Jobs)
-Green economy and the ICT sector
-Eco-innovations and small enterprises in the Global South
-Technologies for carbon capture
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Modalità di insegnamento
Class teaching, discussion of specific cases, group works
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Modalità di verifica dell'apprendimento
-Student will work in groups of two/three to prepare a mid-term presentation.
-Written exam
Percentage of final mark:
Class presentation (50%)
Written exam (50% - multiple answer questions and open questions).
Students that did not attend the course and did not participate to group works will answer two more open questions in the final written exam.
The compulsory material will be provided on the Moodle page.
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Attività di supporto
Testi consigliati e bibliografia
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Articles and chapters compulsory for the exam will be provided and explained in class. Please consult the Moodle page for the precise Syllabus.The following reading list represents a general basic material.Díaz López, F. J., Mazzanti, M., & Zoboli, R. (2023). Handbook on innovation, society and the environment. Edward Elgar Publishing.Mokyr, Joel. "Accounting for the industrial revolution." The Cambridge economic history of modern Britain 1 (2004).Chancel, L., Piketty, T., Saez, E., Zucman, G. et al. World Inequality Report 2022, World Inequality Lab. Chapter 6: Global Carbon Inequality. https://wir2022.wid.world/chapter-6/Wang, M., Li, Y., Li, J., & Wang, Z. (2021). Green process innovation, green product innovation and its economic performance improvement paths: A survey and structural model. Journal of environmental management, 297, 113282Awan, U., Arnold, M. G., & Gölgeci, I. (2021). Enhancing green product and process innovation: Towards an integrative framework of knowledge acquisition and environmental investment. Business strategy and the environment, 30(2), 1283-1295.Bonilla et al. (2018) “Industry 4.0 and Sustainability Implications: A Scenario-Based Analysis of the Impacts and Challenges” Sustainability 10(10).Creech, H., Paas, L., Gabriel, G. H., Voora, V., Hybsier, C., & Marquard, H. (2014). "Small-scale social-environmental enterprises in the green economy: supporting grassroots innovation". Development in Practice, 24(3), 366-378.Colombo, L. A., Pansera, M., & Owen, R. (2019). The discourse of eco-innovation in the European Union: An analysis of the Eco-Innovation Action Plan and Horizon 2020. Journal of Cleaner Production, 214, 653-665Rivas, S., Urraca, R., Bertoldi, P., & Thiel, C. (2021). "Towards the EU Green Deal: Local key factors to achieve ambitious 2030 climate targets". Journal of Cleaner Production, 320.Adisa, M. O., Oyedeji, S., & Porras, J. (2024). The nexus between ICT, top-down and bottom-up approaches for sustainability activities: A systematic mapping study. Journal of Cleaner Production, 141768.Wang, N., Akimoto, K., & Nemet, G. F. (2021). What went wrong? Learning from three decades of carbon capture, utilization and sequestration (CCUS) pilot and demonstration projects. Energy Policy, 158, 112546.
IRENA and ILO (2024), Renewable energy and jobs: Annual review 2024, International Renewable Energy Agency, Abu Dhabi, and International Labour Organization, Geneva.
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Note
The course will take place in the second semester, from February 16, 2026.
It will be on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, h 08-10 am, Room F2, Campus Luigi Einaudi (CLE).
The lecture of Wednesday March 4 is postponed to Friday March 13, h 10-12, Room D3.
The lecture of March 23 will be online, h 8:30-10 a.m, in the Professor's webex room
https://unito.webex.com/meet/elena.vallino
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Insegnamenti che mutuano questo insegnamento
- GREEN ECONOMY AND INNOVATION (CPS0886)Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società
- Green economy and innovation (ECO0461)Corso di Laurea magistrale interateneo in Economia dell'Ambiente, della Cultura e del Territorio
- GREEN ECONOMY AND INNOVATION (CPS0886)
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