IVAN PALAVICINI

PhD student, London School of Economics and Political Sciences

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• The impact of local economic development (LED) strategies from the bottom on the development of localities, regions and countries.

• Entrepreneurship and LED. Specifically, the role of higher education institutions in promoting entrepreneurship and its impact on LED.

• Bottom-up LED strategies as a response to globalisation and economic downturns.

• LED in Latin America

Master of Science

Local Economic Development, London School of Economics (1998-1999)

Dissertation entitled “Politics, Institutions and the Economic Performance of the main Oil-Producing States in Mexico: Campeche and Tabasco”.

 

Bachelor of Science

Economics, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (1991-1996)

The degree was obtained with the defence of the thesis entitled “Sustainability Analysis of the Mexican Fishery of Sardines”.

 

Diploma in Econometrics

Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (2004-2005)

Course of the Continuing Education and Statistics Departments covering the Classical Multiple Regression Model, Binary Logistic Regression and Time Series Models.

 

Academic experience

LSE, Geography and Environment Department

• Graduate Teaching Assistant (Academic year 2011-2012). Teaching the course entitled 'Economy, Society and Environment'.

• Map Room supervisor (Academic year 2008-2009). Service in the Geography’s department Map Room in relation to an award given for the first academic year of PhD studies. This position involved the interaction with professors and students to satisfy their needs of information.

Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Campus Santa Fe (ITESM/Tec of Monterrey)

Member of the faculty (August 2003 to August 2008)

• Member of two research groups studying diverse Mexican development issues from the local perspective. Focus on entrepreneurship and local economic development.

• Coordinator of the Mexican Economy Website of the Campus Santa Fe, delivering high quality contents for analysis and decision making.

• Campus Santa Fe Business Centre director from February 2007 to August 2008, designing and delivering courses and workshops to the internal community, and to governmental and private institutions in relation to diverse Finance and Economics topics and tools.

• Lecturer in the following courses: Principles of Microeconomics and Principles of Macroeconomics.

Instituto Superior de Estudios Comerciales (ISEC)  

Lecturer (May 2000 to July 2003)

Teaching the following courses:

• Public Finance. This course had special emphasis on Public Finance theories and Mexican Federal government transfers to states (regions).

• International Economics. This course had a special emphasis on globalisation and local response.

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Other professional experience

Electronic Centre for the Promotion of Regional and Local Development (Centro de Impulso al Desarrollo Integral de Regiones y Localidades, A.C.) www.ceidir.org

Founder and director (October 2002 to nowadays)

•  This activity iinvolves designing, implementing and managing the different activities and on-line services of this organisation devoted to local development issues. Effective coordination with Ceidir’s volunteers around the world is essential for the operation of this organisation.

Mexican Finance Ministry (SHCP)

General Office of Planning and Budgeting on Education, Health and Labour

Head of Department (September 2000 to September 2002)

• The main activities performed were the analysis of operational rules of federal programmes (related with social development, job creation and training) and the preparation of part of the ‘Federal Budget Initiative’ which was presented each year to the National Congress (House of Deputies) for its approval.

Mexican Service of Tributary Administration (SAT)

General Office of Revenue Policy

Analyst (May 1997 to September 1998)

• The post involved the economic analysis of different proposals concerning the decentralisation of tax revenues to regional and municipal governments.

Publications and presentations

Publications in Spanish and English:

• Corro, M. and E. Palavicini (2008). ‘Participación social, políticas públicas y emprendeduría en México 1988-2006’. In Briseño, L. and S. Chacón eds. México: un espacio, cuatro escenarios. Miguel Ángel Porrúa, México.
• Palavicini E. (2007). ‘Promoting Entrepreneurship in Higher Education: Business Incubation in the Experience of the Technology and Superior Studies Institute of Monterrey’. Proceedings of the Conference on University Entrepreneurship-Incubating Processes. Finnish Polytechnics Entrepreneurship Network, Lahti, Finland.
• Palavicini, E. (2000). ‘Desarrollo económico regional en la actualidad: presentación de las nuevas estrategias’. Gaceta de Economía, Año 5, Núm. 10, ITAM, México, D.F. Full text in electronic file
• Occasional book reviewer for Government and Policy C: Environment and Planning (Volume 20, No.2 and Volume 21, No.2).  Electronic address: www.pion.co.uk

• Articles published in the Review of CEIDIR’s Forum:

1. Palavicini E. (2001). Políticas de desarrollo económico local y regional en el mundo y una propuesta general para México. Revista del Foro CEIDIR, No. 1: Online access to article

2. Palavicini E. (2002). The process of globalisation and the development of lagging regions and countries. Revista del Foro CEIDIR, No. 3: Online access to article

3. Palavicini E. (2003). 'El concepto de desarrollo sustentable'. Revista del Foro CEIDIR, No. 4: Online access to article

4. Palavicini E. (2005). 'Entrepreneurship and higher education in Mexico: The experience of the TEC of Monterrey'. Revista del Foro CEIDIR, No. 6: Online access to article

5. Palavicini E. (2006). 'El sistema educativo, la migración y el fomento de emprendedores para el desarrollo local'. Revista del Foro CEIDIR, No. 7: Online access to article

6. Palavicini E. (2008). 'El desarrollo desde una perspectiva local e integral: análisis y propuestas para tres municipios del centro de México'. Revista del Foro CEIDIR, No. 8: Online access to article

Participation in conferences and other academic events:

• European Regional Science Association 2010 Conference: Sustainable Regional Growth and Development in the Creative Knowledge Economy. Jönköping, Sweden, August 19-23. Presentation entitled: ‘Assessing the impact of local economic development strategies in Mexican municipalities 1990-2005’.
• European Regional Science Association, Summer School on Regional Growth Models: Advances in Theory, Methodology and Empirical Analysis. Volos, Greece, July 3-12 2009. Presentation entitled: ‘The impact of bottom-up Local Economic Development strategies in the development of Mexican municipalities: A first approximation’.
• Finnish Polytechnics Entrepreneurship Network (FINPIN) Conference: University Entrepreneurship-Incubating Processes. Lahti, Finland, June 11-14 2006. Presentation entitled: ‘Promoting Entrepreneurship in Higher Education: Business Incubation in the Experience of the Technology and Superior Studies Institute of Monterrey’.
• Second Municipal Development Forum, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico, October 27-29, 2005. Presentation entitled: “Migration and local development: education and entrepreneurship”.
• OECD International Conference on Fostering Entrepreneurship: The Role of Higher Education, Trento, Italy, 23-24 June 2005. Presentation entitled: ‘Entrepreneurship and higher education in Mexico: The experience of the Technological and Superior Studies Institute of Monterrey’.
• First Municipal Development Forum, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico, October 21-23, 2004. Presentation entitled: “Development from a local perspective”.
• 2003 APRU Doctoral Students Conference “Science, technology, society and culture: tools for building the future of the Pacific Rim”, Mexico City, August 24-29. Presentation entitled: “Local development strategies: The contribution of local capacity building”.

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Links

London School of Economics Academics interested in Local Economic Development:

• Professor Andres Rodriguez-Pose LSE Experts

• Professor Ian Gordon LSE Experts

• Professor Riccardo Crescenzi LSE Experts

LIBRERIA GANDHI, MEXICO

Local Economic Development links

Contact Information

 LSE, Geography Department

Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE

E-mail: e.i.palavicini-corona@lse.ac.uk

Last updated: January 2012