IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/psl/moneta/202226.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Lo scontro per le materie prime e la necessita' di una nuova politica industriale (The struggle for raw materials and the need for a new industrial policy)

Author

Listed:
  • Giacomo Cucignatto

    (Universita' degli Studi Roma Tre)

  • Nadia Garbellini

    (Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia)

Abstract

La guerra russo-ucraina ha ulteriormente messo in discussione il modello di globalizzazione degli ultimi decenni, gia' 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 difficolta' 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 capacita' produttiva attualmente a disposizione del settore pubblico e delle partecipate. The Russian-Ukrainian war has further called into question the globalization model of the last decades, which had already been put into crisis by the pandemic, and has definitively clarified the process of reorganization 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 characterizing 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.

Suggested Citation

  • Giacomo Cucignatto & Nadia Garbellini, 2022. "Lo scontro per le materie prime e la necessita' di una nuova politica industriale (The struggle for raw materials and the need for a new industrial policy)," Moneta e Credito, Economia civile, vol. 75(298), pages 185-202.
  • Handle: RePEc:psl:moneta:2022:26
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa04/moneta_e_credito/article/view/17734/16869
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Ken Warwick, 2013. "Beyond Industrial Policy: Emerging Issues and New Trends," OECD Science, Technology and Industry Policy Papers 2, OECD Publishing.
    2. Kopanos, Georgios M. & Xenos, Dionysios P. & Cicciotti, Matteo & Pistikopoulos, Efstratios N. & Thornhill, Nina F., 2015. "Optimization of a network of compressors in parallel: Operational and maintenance planning – The air separation plant case," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 146(C), pages 453-470.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Michael Böheim, 2013. "Zur Renaissance der Industriepolitik. Ein neuer umfassender Politikansatz oder nur alter Wein in neuen Schläuchen?," WIFO Monatsberichte (monthly reports), WIFO, vol. 86(12), pages 953-960, December.
    2. Russell, Martha G. & Smorodinskaya, Nataliya V., 2018. "Leveraging complexity for ecosystemic innovation," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 136(C), pages 114-131.
    3. Bernard Hoekman & Douglas Nelson, 2020. "Subsidies, Spillovers and Multilateral Cooperation," RSCAS Working Papers 2020/12, European University Institute.
    4. Sandrine Labory & Patrizio Bianchi, 2014. "The institutional framework of Industrial policies," Working Papers 2014203, University of Ferrara, Department of Economics.
    5. Zulkafli, Nur I. & Kopanos, Georgios M., 2016. "Planning of production and utility systems under unit performance degradation and alternative resource-constrained cleaning policies," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 183(C), pages 577-602.
    6. Sébastien Lechevalier & Pauline Debanes & Shin Wonkyu, 2016. "Financialization and industrial policies in Japan and Korea: Evolving complementarities and loss of institutional capabilities," Working Papers halshs-01431783, HAL.
    7. Charis Vlados & Dimos Chatzinikolaou & Michail Demertzis, 2020. "The Case of the European South on Entrepreneurship Enhancement Policies," International Journal of Finance, Insurance and Risk Management, International Journal of Finance, Insurance and Risk Management, vol. 10(1), pages 45-56.
    8. Bulfone, Fabio & Ergen, Timur & Kalaitzake, Manolis, 2022. "No strings attached: Corporate welfare, state intervention, and the issue of conditionality," MPIfG Discussion Paper 22/2, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.
    9. Marina V. Evseeva & Evgeny N. Starikov & Mikhail P. Voronov, 2021. "Technological development of industrial regions: The ecosystem approach," Upravlenets, Ural State University of Economics, vol. 12(3), pages 13-30, July.
    10. Jordaan,Jacob Arie & Douw,Willem & Qiang,Zhenwei, 2020. "Multinational Corporation Affiliates, Backward Linkages, and Productivity Spillovers in Developing and Emerging Economies : Evidence and Policy Making," Policy Research Working Paper Series 9364, The World Bank.
    11. Hsu, Bo-Xiang & Chen, Yi-Min & Yan, Ting-Yu, 2021. "Industrial targeting and firm performance: An integrated approach to industry selection," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 162(C).
    12. Vu, Khuong M., 2018. "Embracing globalization to promote industrialization: Insights from the development of Singapore's petrochemicals industry," China Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 48(C), pages 170-185.
    13. John Weiss & Adnan Seric, 2021. "Industrial policy: Clarifying options through taxonomy and decision trees," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 39(5), pages 773-788, September.
    14. Antonio Andreoni & Ha-Joon Chang, 2016. "Industrial policy and the future of manufacturing," Economia e Politica Industriale: Journal of Industrial and Business Economics, Springer;Associazione Amici di Economia e Politica Industriale, vol. 43(4), pages 491-502, December.
    15. Sandrine Labory, 2014. "Determining Industrial Policy in Current Conditions of Competition," QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria, Associazione Rossi Doria, issue 4, December.
    16. Elsie Harper-Anderson, 2018. "Intersections of Partnership and Leadership in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Comparing Three U.S. Regions," Economic Development Quarterly, , vol. 32(2), pages 119-134, May.
    17. Kim, Kyunghoon & Sumner, Andy, 2021. "Bringing state-owned entities back into the industrial policy debate: The case of Indonesia," Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Elsevier, vol. 59(C), pages 496-509.
    18. Simachev, Y. & Kuzyk, M. & Pogrebnyak, E., 2018. "Federal Industrial Policy: Basic Models and Russian Practice," Journal of the New Economic Association, New Economic Association, vol. 39(3), pages 146-154.
    19. Constantino Hevia & Norman V. Loayza & Claudia Meza-Cuadra, 2023. "Industrial Policies vs Public Goods under Asymmetric Information," Revista Economía, Fondo Editorial - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, vol. 46(91), pages 39-52.
    20. Gunton, Cameron & Markey, Sean & Werker, Eric, 2021. "Evaluating British Columbia's economic policies for liquefied natural gas development," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 151(C).

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Industrial policy; international trade; energy; globalization; steel production; workers' control;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • F40 - International Economics - - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance - - - General
    • F50 - International Economics - - International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy - - - General
    • O20 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Development Planning and Policy - - - General
    • O25 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Development Planning and Policy - - - Industrial Policy
    • Q40 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - General
    • Q41 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Demand and Supply; Prices
    • Q48 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Government Policy

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:psl:moneta:2022:26. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Carlo D'Ippoliti (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.economiacivile.it .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.