Economics of Innovation in the Food Industry

The course aims to provide students with the theoretical and methodological tools for the economic analysis of the food industry and the competite evaluation in order to be able to analyze the different types of innovation and the effects that these have on the market, also analyzing the demand side. Furthermore, the course aims to provide knowledge on adoption strategies and methods for evaluating innovations in food businesses.

At the end of the course the students will be able to understand and evaluate economic developments in the food industry and choose the best strategies to evaluate the effects of product and process innovations.