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UPPSALA UNIVERSITY

Department of Social and Economic Geography

Center for Research on Innovation and Industrial Dynamics (CIND)

Visiting Professor Örjan Sölvell

In cooperation with

Professor Michael E. Porter

Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness (ISC) at Harvard Business School

Microeconomics of Competitiveness (MOC) 2003

Contents:

Introduction

MOC 2003

Module 1 – Competition and Strategy (15/6 19.00 – 17/6 16.00)

Module 2 – The microeconomic Environment (1/9 09.00 - 2/9 16.00)

Module 3 – Nations and Regions (29/9 09.00 - 30/9 16.00)

Module 4 - Cluster Project (27/10 09.00 - 28/10 16.00)

Introduction

During the academic year 2001/2002, University Professor Michael E Porter, Director for the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness (ISC) (www.isc.hbs.edu) at the Harvard Business School, and Professor Örjan Sölvell, Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics (IIB) and Fellow at ISC, jointly developed a new course entitled ‘Microeconomics of Competitiveness’ (MOC).

The Microeconomics of Competitiveness course was first taught at the Harvard Business School in the spring of 2002. The student body of around 100 students included second-year students from the Harvard Business School, The Kennedy School of Government, M.I.T. Sloan School and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. In parallel, the course was also taught at SSE Riga in Latvia and INCAE in Costa Rica. In 2003 MOC will be taught at some 15-20 universities around the world.

The ultimate aim of developing this unique course was that it would be taught at universities throughout the world, involving students, practitioners and policy makers. Furthermore, that the course would serve as a stimulus for new teaching materials and instructor learning, and that it would lead to the advancement of competitiveness theory and practice. In adapted form the course can also be used as a vehicle for...