[Italy] PhD Scholarships in Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering, Politecnico di Milano - (Undergraduate)
Politecnico di Milano, Department of Management, Economics andIndustrial Engineering (Italy)
12 Scholarships for attendance of a PhD program in Management, Economicsand Industrial Engineering: Politecnico di Milano
There are 12 vacant scholarships for PhD-students at the Department ofManagement, Economics, and Industrial Engineering of Politecnico diMilano. One of the scholarship is reserved to non Italian students. Theother 11 scholarships are open to both Italian and non Italian students.
The scholarships are for three years. They will start on 1-1-2007. Theyinclude a mandatory period (minimum 6 months) to be spent in a foreignacademic institution. The net amount of the scholarships is 826 EURO permonth (1.212 EURO per month in the semester spent abroad). The amount ofthe scholarships may be increased through participation in the teachingactivities at undergraduate, master and MBA/Executive level of theDepartment and in contract research activities.
Research issues of interest to the Department are as follows:
Alliances, acquisitions and knowledge generation of high-tech start-ups
Technology policy and external financing of high-tech start-ups
Economics of telecommunications
Regional competitiveness andenlargement
Knowledge, creativity and local development
Urbancompetitiveness and globalization processes
Economic evaluation oflocal development plans
Knowledge management and communities ofpractice
Firm-level effects of regulatory reforms in networkindustries
IPOs and firms??? performances
Entrepreneurship and finance
Organization of domestic health care services
Innovative models formarketing services control
Internationalization of firms andproduction processes
Price competition in international markets
Analysis of operating risk and organization of transportation systems
Logistics
Data mining and business intelligence;
Application ofoptimization methods and mathematical models for inductive learning tomanagement, public administration and biolife systems
The successful candidate must have a Master degree in a relevant socialscience or technical discipline (at least five year-universityeducation). He/she must have strong interests in applied research inmanagement, economics and/or industrial engineering. The Departmentoffers opportunities to attend conferences, to meet and interact withinternational researchers, and to present preliminary work inhigh-quality discussion workshops.
Candidates should i) preliminary send by August 15, 2007 a detailed CV(including relevant publications, if any) to professor Massimo G.Colombo at the following e-mail address: drig@polimi.it, indicatingthe research issue(s) to which they are interested; ii) send anapplication to the Research Doctorates Department of the Politecnico diMilano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32 ??? 20133, Milan, ITALY by registeredletter (stating on the envelope ?application for admission tocompetition for Research Doctorate?); the deadline for submission of theapplication is September 15, 2007 (the valid date will be that of thereceipt stamp of the appropriate offices of the Politecnico di Milano,and not the date on which the application was sent). Application formcan be downloaded here.
For further details on the doctoral program in Management, Economics andIndustrial Engineering, visit the website:
http://www.dig.polimi.it/eng/dottorato/fr_dottorato.html
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