STRATEGY OF FIRMS LOCATION

In this course, students will develop skills to:
a. Analyze the industrial choices and conditions of investments
b. Analyse the key success factors base on organizational assets and skills
c. Identify the conditions of mobilization of forward-looking industrial policy and the subsequent
actions to be undertaken
d. Gather information on good practices developed by companies and regions to anticipate and
manage change and restructuring. Special attention to be given to innovative practice
e. Create a list of existing major National Networks/Initiatives in order to link the main
stakeholders and create an informal observatory for anticipation of change
f. Build up a survey on understanding strategic issues on anticipating changes: re-localization,…
g. Understand the contribution of corporate real estate strategy to the overall strategy
h. Understand the real estate location model
i. Analyze different project profiles
j. Carry out scenario development and assessment
k. Explore strategic consideration
l. Explore financial consideration
m. Reflect models on new location approach
n. Analyze different types of business sites
o. Identify partners and stakeholders
p. Identify locations factors
q. Analyze the market.
r. Understand the investor/end-user
s. Define and implement a site marketing strategy
t. Analyze key-success factors of existing clusters as a tool to anticipate changes
u. Identify the conditions of mobilization of forward-looking regional policy and the subsequent
actions to be undertaken
v. Define needs expected by the stakeholders
w. Define a business model to implement a business route for the stakeholders.
x. Propose actions, performance indicators.
y. Understand challenges in innovation for the entrepreneurs or the project leader
z. Understand the impact of NTBF’s in the socio-economic environment
aa. Assess a science park performance
bb. Define and implement a marketing strategy for retaining and attracting new technological
organisations