FORMATIVE OBJECTIVES
The course is aimed at providing the student, already endowed with a university education in the field of Microeconomics, Macroeconomics and Knowledge Economics, with the preparation to face adequate interpretations and analyses of real phenomena related to local economic systems and local development, which it is implemented through the networks of companies, infrastructures, organizations and public and private institutions present in the territory. The contents and aims of the course are, therefore, important elements for achieving the training objectives of the entire course of studies, among which, in particular, "the acquisition of strong professionalism with high and complex skills essential for the definition and the management of suitable strategies to face rapidly evolving and increasingly competitive contexts, with specific reference to the current sectoral, global and territorial growth and development models, as well as their sustainability ".

EXPECTED LEARNING RESULTS
At the end of the course, the student of the Master's Degree in Management, Finance and Development will have to know and understand the economic processes that characterize the dynamics of development of local economic systems, with particular attention to the role of innovation. The student must also acquire knowledge and understanding of the role of institutions, universities and research organizations, as well as of the Government and public finance for the purposes of local development. The final result to be achieved through the course of lessons is to lead the student to acquire a certain degree of autonomy in addressing the issues at the center of a current and fundamental research field: the role of local economic systems in goals of the dynamics of innovation and therefore of global economic development. The acquired knowledge can be applied:
- in work or research activities aimed at defining and promoting growth and development models, in research organizations, government institutions, public and private companies, consortia of companies, business and social associations;
- in activities of promotion and offer of real and financial services to the general development or of specific productive sectors, in public and private bodies (local and national) and in development agencies.