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Italy's National Recovery and Resilience Plan provides over 230 billion euros for rescuing the economy after the covid-19 crisis. This article provides an analysis of the Plan, with a focus on its industrial policy implications. The challenge of rebuilding the Italian economy would require less fragmentation of the measures and a medium-term development strategy, but such a vision is missing from the approach and content of the Plan. National and European resources available for addressing the crisis should focus on key priority fields, including digital technologies, environmentally sustainable economic activities, and welfare and public health services. New targeted policy tools are required, moving beyond 'horizontal' incentives to firms, and new public institutions could guide investment efforts towards a new development trajectory. JEL Classification: L5, O2, P48 ; Il Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza (PNRR) stanzia oltre 230 miliardi di risorse per la ripartenza dell'economia dopo la crisi del Covid-19. Quest'articolo fornisce un'analisi del PNRR, con un focus sulle sue implicazioni di politica industriale. La sfida della ricostruzione dell'economia italiana richiede una minore frammentazione degli interventi e l'esplicitazione di una traiettoria di sviluppo di medio periodo; tale visione è però assente nell'impostazione e nei contenuti del Piano. Le risorse nazionali ed europee disponibili per affrontare la crisi dovrebbero concentrarsi su obiettivi e settori prioritari, come le tecnologie digitali, le attività economiche sostenibili dal punto di vista ambientale e i servizi di benessere e sanità pubblica. Sono necessari nuovi strumenti politici mirati, che vadano oltre gli incentivi 'orizzontali' alle imprese; nuove istituzioni pubbliche potrebbero guidare gli sforzi di investimento verso una nuova traiettoria di sviluppo.

The Russian-Ukrainian war has further called into question the globalisation model of the last decades, which had already been put into crisis by the pandemic, and has definitively clarified the process of reorganisation of transnational value chains and the strategic dependencies of the European Union in terms of raw materials and intermediate goods. This article provides an examination of the major supply difficulties caused by the conflict in the Italian production system and proposes an alternative industrial policy approach to that characterising national policies and the NRRP. In particular, it puts forward a proposal for the redevelopment of the Taranto steel plant to develop domestic production of neon gas, in order to replace 'strategic' supplies from Ukraine and relocate Italy at the top of the semiconductor value chain, taking advantage of the production capacity currently available to the public sector and its subsidiaries. ; La guerra russo-ucraina ha ulteriormente messo in discussione il modello di globalizzazione degli ultimi decenni, già messo in crisi dalla pandemia, esplicitando il processo di riorganizzazione delle catene transnazionali del valore e le dipendenze strategiche dell'Unione Europea in termini di materie prime e beni intermedi. Questo articolo fornisce una disamina delle maggiori difficoltà di approvvigionamento provocate dal conflitto nel sistema produttivo italiano e propone un approccio di politica industriale alternativo rispetto a quello che caratterizza le politiche nazionali e il PNRR. In particolare, si avanza una proposta di riqualificazione dello stabilimento siderurgico di Taranto che sviluppi la produzione nazionale di gas neon, al fine di sostituire le forniture "strategiche" provenienti dall'Ucraina e ricollocare l'Italia nella parte alta della catena del valore dei semiconduttori, sfruttando la capacità produttiva attualmente a disposizione del settore pubblico e delle partecipate.

The crisis started in 2008 has accelerated the decline of Italy's industry. An analysis of the current tools used in Italy's industrial and innovation policy shows that they are not able to support a revival of production and investment in Italy and to reduce Italy's gap in technological activities. A strong recovery depends on the development of a more ambitious industrial policy plan, combining Italian and European initiatives.

This paper aims to analyze the role of industrial policy, in Italy, trying to identify the perspectives either in the short or in medium-long term. After having illustrated the main results of a recent research on the effectiveness of industrial policy, the analysis compares two different approaches: the first aimed at attributing to the State an important role in defining a set of structural economic and industrial measures; the second finalized to minimize the State intervention in support of the productive system. Moreover, the research focuses on the more recent measures of industrial policy adopted in Italy especially for increasing innovation and new firms with high technological content: these interventions appear to outline a real philosophy of industrial policy and can be considered in between the two different visions. In the conclusions, some thoughts are developed in order to indicate the future and desirable trends of industrial policy to be placed inside a Project-Country and shared with medium - long term objectives

Pubblicato in Un modello catalografico per l'archeologia industriale, a cura di G. Bovini, R. Covino, M. G. Fioriti, G. Gallo, M. Giorgini, Perugia: Electa Editori Umbri Associati (Catalogo regionale dei beni culturali dell'Umbria), 1987, pp. 13-39.

Cover; Occhiello; Indice; Premessa; CAPITOLO I L'EVOLUZIONE DELLA POLITICA INDUSTRIALE NELL'UNIONE EUROPEA. LA MANCANZA DI UNA VISIONE SISTEMICA PER L'INDUSTRIA; CAPITOLO II IL RUOLO DI IMPULSO DELLA COMMISSIONE EUROPEA NEI DOCUMENTI D'INDIRIZZO PER L'INDUSTRIA; CAPITOLO III LA POLITICA INDUSTRIALE ITALIANA. PRIMI SVILUPPI IN ORDINE ALLA RIQUALIFICAZIONE; CAPITOLO IV IL SISTEMA GIURIDICO NAZIONALE IN TEMA DI RIQUALIFICAZIONE DELLE AREE DI CRISI INDUSTRIALE COMPLESSA; OSSERVAZIONI CONCLUSIVE; BIBLIOGRAFIA.

Foreign direct investments (fdis) are generally recognized as crucial factors of development and modernization with national economies. In the economic literature, there is a broad consen- sus on the positive impact of fdis on destination countries, both at the macroeconomic and em- ployment level. The concern about knowledge and know-how transfers that fdis can activate be- tween businesses and territories is gaining momentum. Our article focuses on this topic, using, in particular, the approach to economic complexity as a tool to analyze the productive knowl- edge endowment of the territory. In the introduction, we point out the fundamental elements of the economic complexity and discuss the importance of a strategic approach to attract fdis. Our analysis follows the localization strategies of fdis in Italy and considers them in relation to the different degree of economic complexity within the local systems. After this locally-focused interpretation, we present an analysis of the network of the international partners involved in the fdis and the sectors where fdis in Italy are concentrated. Finally, the product space is dis- cussed in more detail in order to highlight some of the areas where Italy could leverage fdis to strengthen its pool of knowledge and increase the complexity of its production system.