Regional and Local Development

Course Syllabus

The Faculty

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Week

Date

Time

Activity

Monday, 10/02/2014

10:15 - 11:45

Lecture 01. Overall Framework: Defining Competitiveness and Its Determinants

Nguyễn Xuân Thành

Readings:

1. VTTA, An Introduction of Competitiveness Evaluation Theory2.

2. On competition, chapter 6, p155-166

Wednesday, 12/02/2014

10:15 - 11:45

Case Study 01. Competitive strategy

Nguyễn Xuân Thành

Readings:

1. CASE: (Solvell and Porter, 2008, Finland and Nokia: Creating the world's most competitive economy)

2. On competition, chapter 2.

Monday, 17/02/2014

10:15 - 11:45

Case Study 02. Economic Development Strategy

Phan Chánh Dưỡng

Readings:

1. CASE: Phan Chánh Dưỡng, HCMC development Orientation: Heading to South toward the East Sea.

Wednesday, 19/02/2014

10:15 - 11:45

Case Study 03. Building Competitiveness: Market and Role of Government

Phan Chánh Dưỡng

Readings:

1. CASE: The story of Columbia fresh flower.

Monday, 24/02/2014

10:15 - 11:45

Lecture 02. Introduction to the Diamond Model

Nguyễn Xuân Thành

Readings:

1. On competition, chapter 6, p. 166-195.

Wednesday, 26/02/2014

10:15 - 11:45

Case Study 04. Evaluating local competitiveness using Diamond Model

Lê Thị Quỳnh Trâm

Readings:

1. CASE: An Giang: Improving prerequisite for Local Development.

Monday, 03/03/2014

10:15 - 11:45

Lecture 03. Clusters and Cluster Development

Nguyễn Xuân Thành

Readings:

1. On competition, chapter 7.

Wednesday, 05/03/2014

10:15 - 11:45

Case Study 05. Clusters and Cluster Development: Advanced Economies

Nguyễn Xuân Thành

Readings:

1. CASE: (9-799-124) Porter & Bond, California Wine Cluster.

Monday, 10/03/2014

10:15 - 11:45

Case Study 06. Clusters and Cluster Development: Developing/Transition Countries

Lê Thị Quỳnh Trâm

Readings:

1. CASE: (9-703-422) Ketelhohn & Porter, Building a Cluster: Electronics and Information Technology in Costa Rica.

Wednesday, 12/03/2014

10:15 - 11:45

Case Study 07. Institutions for Collaboration

Nguyễn Xuân Thành

Readings:

1. CASE: (9-703-437) Porter & Emmons, Asociación Colombiana de Industrias Plásticas)

2. CASE: (9-703-436) Porter & Emmons, Institutions for Collaboration: Overview.

Monday, 17/03/2014

10:15 - 11:45

Lecture 04. Value chain Approach in agriculture research

Trần Tiến Khai

Readings:

1. Markets4Poor (2008), Making Value Chains Work Better for the Poor - A Toolbook for Practitioners of Value Chain Analysis

2. Kaplinsky R., Morris M. (2000), A Handbook for Value Chain Research.

Wednesday, 19/03/2014

10:15 - 11:45

Lecture 05. Quantitative Methods for value chain

Trần Tiến Khai

Readings:

1. Markets4Poor (2008), Making Value Chains Work Better for the Poor - A Toolbook for Practitioners of Value Chain Analysis

2. GTZ ValueLinks Manual: The Methodology of Value Chain Promotion, http://www.value-links.de/manual/distributor.html.

Monday, 24/03/2014

10:15 - 11:45

Lecture 06. Value Added Analysis for Commodity Chain

Trần Tiến Khai

Readings:

1. Fabien Tallec and Louis Bockel (2005). Commodity chain analysis. Financial analysis. EASYPol. Module 044. FAO

2. Trần Tiến Khai et all. (2011). An Analysis of Ben Tre Coconut Value chain. Report paper.

Wednesday, 26/03/2014

10:15 - 11:45

Lecture 07. Qualitative Methods for value chain

Trần Tiến Khai

Readings:

1. Trần Tiến Khai et all. (2011). An Analysis of Ben Tre Coconut Value Chain. Report paper.

Monday, 07/04/2014

10:15 - 11:45

Lecture 08. National, Regional and Local Economic Development Strategy

Nguyễn Xuân Thành

Readings:

1. Comparative Advantage of Nations, Chapter 1.

Thursday, 10/04/2014

10:15 - 11:45

Field Trip

Friday, 11/04/2014

10:15 - 11:45

Field Trip

Monday, 14/04/2014

10:15 - 11:45

Case Study 08. National Economic Development Strategy

Nguyễn Xuân Thành

Readings:

1. CASE: (9-710-483) Porter et al., Remaking Singapore.

Wednesday, 16/04/2014

10:15 - 11:45

Case Study 09. Regional Economic Development Strategy

Nguyễn Xuân Thành

Readings:

1. CASE: (9-703-426) Porter, The State of Connecticut: Strategy for Economic Development.

Monday, 28/04/2014

10:15 - 11:45

Case Study 10. Redefining Mekong Delta

Phan Chánh Dưỡng

Readings:

1. Mekong Delta: Linkage for sustainable development and competitiveness enhancement.

Monday, 05/05/2014

10:15 - 11:45

Case Study 11. Economic Development of Central Coastal

Nguyễn Xuân Thành

Readings:

1. CASE: Chu Lai Open Zone: The Lab for Institutional and Policy Reform

2. Reviewing Quang Nam Competitiveness.

Wednesday, 07/05/2014

10:15 - 11:45

Case Study 12. Economic Development of Red River Delta

Nguyễn Xuân Thành

Readings:

1. CASE: Ninh Binh: Trade-off between short-run and Long-run

2. Dapice et al, History or Policy: Why don't Northern Provinces Grow Faster?

Monday, 12/05/2014

10:15 - 11:45

Case Study 13. Economic Upgrading: Private Sector Development

Nguyễn Xuân Thành

Readings:

1. CASE: Binh Duong as business's companion.

Wednesday, 14/05/2014

10:15 - 11:45

Lecture 09. Concept of Marketing Places

Phan Chánh Dưỡng

Readings:

1. Philip Kotler (2002), Chapter 1: "The Marketing Challenge in the New Asia".

Monday, 19/05/2014

10:15 - 11:45

Lecture 10. Building strategy for marketing places

Phan Chánh Dưỡng

Readings:

1. Philip Kotler (2002), Chapter 3: "How places market themselves".

Wednesday, 21/05/2014

10:15 - 11:45

Lecture 11. Final Review

Nguyễn Xuân Thành

Thursday, 29/05/2014

08:30 - 17:30

Group Project Presentation.

Reading 10. Marketing Asian places : attracting investment, industry, and tourism to cities, states, and nations, Chapter 3

Philip Kotler et al.

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Reading 9. Marketing Asian places : attracting investment, industry, and tourism to cities, states, and nations, Chapter 1

Philip Kotler et al.

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Reading 8. The competitive advantage of nations, Chapter 1

Michael E. Porter

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Reading 7. Analysis of Coconut Trees Value Chain in Ben Tre Province (Vietnamese only)

Tran Tien Khai et al.

Date: 17/02/2014 15:27; File size: 58,669 bytes

Reading 6.2. Analysis of Coconut Trees Value Chain in Ben Tre Province (Vietnamese only)

Tran Tien Khai et al.

Date: 17/02/2014 15:16; File size: 58,669 bytes

Reading 6.1. Commodity Chain Analysis: Financial Analysis

Fabien Tallec & Louis Bockel

Date: 17/02/2014 15:14; File size: 203,892 bytes

Reading 5.2. Value Links Manual: The Methodology of Value Chain Promotion

GTZ

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Reading 5.1. Marking Value Chains Work Better for the Poor

Markets4Poor

Date: 17/02/2014 15:08; File size: 8,132,870 bytes

Reading 4.2. A Handbook for Value Chain Research

Rapahel Kaplinsky & Mike Morris

Date: 17/02/2014 15:07; File size: 508,654 bytes

Reading 4.1. Marking Value Chains Work Better for the Poor

Markets4Poor

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Reading 3. Reading 1.2. On Competition, Chapter 7

Michael E. Porter

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Reading 2. On Competition, Chapter 6, Pages 166-195

Michael E. Porter

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Reading 1.2. On Competition, Chapter 6, Pages 155-166

Michael E. Porter

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This is a course on competitiveness and economic development, taking a bottom-up and microeconomic perspective. This course is built upon the FETP's traditional Marketing Places course but takes a new path, which is extensively informed by the Microeconomics of Competitiveness course pioneered by Michael Porter at the Harvard Business School.

The objective of this course is to address the question: How does a constituency (national government, sub-national government, region, cluster, industry association and others) build up its competitiveness to achieve the development goals?

Instructor: Nguyen Xuan Thanh , Le Thi Quynh Tram , Tran Tien Khai , Phan Chanh Duong

Tutor: Tran Thi Loc

MPP-545

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