Center for Policy and Competitiveness

Center for
Policy and
Competitiveness

Center for Policy and Competitiveness - CPC

The Center for Policy and Competitiveness (CPC) – Paris aims to analyze and promote the determinants of competitiveness and economic development viewed from a bottom-up (microeconomic perspective), which represents the dimension where wealth is ultimately created.
One objective is to integrate policymakers and to produce policy briefs that will inform decision-makers on competitiveness’ most poignant tenets.

The focus of our research mainstream strategies of firms, the vitality of clusters, and the quality of the business environment in which competition takes place. These factors are critical to the creation of a socio-economic agenda, which aims at the sustainability of businesses, nations, and societies at large.

The Center operates both research-driven activities and a pedagogically designed course platform which will be made available to students of Ecole des Ponts ParisTech and MBA and DBA participants.

A dedicated course, Microeconomics for Competitiveness is currently being designed specifically for government officials and private sector leaders. The course is not only an educational vehicle but also a tool to influence and support economic development in real-world decision-making.

The ultimate vision of the Center for Policy and Competitiveness, Paris is to make a meaningful impact on the economic competitiveness and prosperity of Europe and beyond.

Center for Policy and Competitiveness - CPC

The Center for Policy and Competitiveness (CPC) – Paris aims to analyze and promote the determinants of competitiveness and economic development viewed from a bottom-up (microeconomic perspective), which represents the dimension where wealth is ultimately created.
One objective is to integrate policymakers and to produce policy briefs that will inform decision-makers on competitiveness’ most poignant tenets.

The focus of our research mainstream strategies of firms, the vitality of clusters, and the quality of the business environment in which competition takes place. These factors are critical to the creation of a socio-economic agenda, which aims at the sustainability of businesses, nations, and societies at large.

The Center operates both research-driven activities and a pedagogically designed course platform which will be made available to students of Ecole des Ponts ParisTech and MBA and DBA participants.

A dedicated course, Microeconomics for Competitiveness is currently being designed specifically for government officials and private sector leaders. The course is not only an educational vehicle but also a tool to influence and support economic development in real-world decision-making.

The ultimate vision of the Center for Policy and Competitiveness, Paris is to make a meaningful impact on the economic competitiveness and prosperity of Europe and beyond.

Research Philosophy

The Center for Policy and Competitiveness-Paris (CPC), works at the intersection among business, technology and
policy. Embedded into the tenets of the fourth industrial revolution, where the role of the converging technologies is crucial to the understanding on how the Future of Production, Government and Work may look like, CPC is home to a vibrant community of leading researchers, applied scientists and scholars. The world is at the threshold of a new industrial revolution characterized by a confluence of emerging technology breakthroughs, from mobile connectivity, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, next-generation robotics, 3D printing, wearables and genetic engineering, to nanotechnology, advanced materials, biotechnology and others.

These technologies, combined and connected, will transform manufacturing and production systems with unprecedented speed and scope, impacting business models, economic growth, employment and sustainability. Supply chains, businesses, and policy-makers need new approaches and capabilities and must work together to build truly innovative production systems that benefit all people.

CPC researches, the interplay with competitiveness, in which way the technological transformation of production systems will drive innovation, sustainability and employment.

Research Objectives

Understand and anticipate beyond the hype and with input from global experts, how technology will transform production within the broader competitiveness spectrum. CPC will investigate each technology’s impact both individually and combined with others

Connect the prime actors through a series of applied research, briefings and insights including established companies and innovators from multiple industries, policy-makers, small and medium-sized enterprises, technology pioneers, academia, labor unions and civil society

Build an inclusive collective vision for the new collective story that will improve the state of the world, supported by foundations of prosperity, innovation and sustainability

Foster cooperation among stakeholders by identifying leading company practices and exploring future-oriented policy frameworks to accelerate innovation and support technology adoption

CPC - Paris: Meet the Team

Dr. Mark Esposito, PhD. - Director of the CPC - Paris

The Center for Policy and Competitiveness is led by Professor Mark Esposito, who holds appointments at Harvard University’s Division of Continuing Education.

He served from 2015 to 2019 as Institutes Council Co-Leader, at the Microeconomics of Competitiveness program (MOC) at the Institute of Strategy and Competitiveness, at Harvard Business School under the mentorship of Professor Michael E. Porter and as Founding Research Fellow of the Circular Economy Center at the Judge’s Business School at University of Cambridge, from 2016 to 2020. He is a Co-Founder at Nexus FrontierTech, an AI scale-up venture and research lab and Co-Founder and Chairman of the Strategic Foresight Board of the Circular Economy Alliance, an Edutech firm for certifications on the circular economy. He was inducted in 2016 on the radar of Thinkers50 as one of the 30 most prominent rising business thinkers in the world and among the top 50 sustainability thinkers in the world by Thinkers360. He is a Senior Advisor to the Ideation Center of Strategy& at PwC in Dubai and to the UC Berkeley SkyDeck incubator. He has equally joined the India Dialog at Stanford University’s US Asia Technology Center in 2022.

Additionally to his role at Harvard, Mark is also a professor of business and Economics at Hult International Business School, globally. He holds Fellowships at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, The Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government in Dubai and the Global Federation of Competitiveness Councils, a branch of the US Competitiveness Council. He has founded the Lab-Center for Competitiveness at Grenoble Ecole de Management, which has become the largest producer of cluster case studies in the world.

He sits on Competitiveness Boards in Italy, India, the Netherlands and the US, among institutional roles where he advised Cities, Governments and UN Agencies. He is part of the Global Expert Network of the World Economic Forum, a member of the Future of Production Team as well as a contributor to 3 WEF reports on Innovation-Driven Entrepreneurship, Collaborative Innovation, and Sustainable Production.

Outside of academia, Mark is an entrepreneur and he co-founded Nexus FrontierTech, an AI studio. In 2016 Mark was named one of the emerging tomorrow’s thought leaders most likely to reinvent capitalism by Thinkers50, the world’s premier ranking of management thinkers, and inducted into the “Radar” of the 30 most influential thinkers, on the rise.

Besides being an advisor and professor, Mark is also a bestselling author and has published several books over the years. Click here for his full book publication list.

He obtained his PhD from the International School of Management in Paris and New York as well as an Executive Doctorate of Business Administration from Ecole des Ponts Business School.

Daphne Halkias - Distinguished Research Fellow

Research Interests:

  • Family Business, Executive Coaching
  • Sustainable Business Strategy, Circular Economy
  • Social Factors of Sustainability in Smart Cities, Innovation Trends in the Urban Environment
  • Social Innovation
  • Digital Entrepreneurship
  • Digital Disruption’s Impact on Leadership
  • Managerial Competencies for the Agile Organization
  • Future Studies and Social Forecasting in Business
  • Digital Disruption in Business Education

Raed Awamleh - Distinguished Research Fellow

Research Interests:

  • Public Leadership and Governance
  • Middle East Geopolitics
  • Public Policy
  • Government practices and frameworks

Fernando Alberti, Ph.D. - Distinguished Research Fellow

Research Interests:

  • Competitiveness
  • Open Innovation
  • Cluster Theory
  • Strategy
  • Family Business Management
  • Entrepreneurship
Saman Sarbazvatan

Saman Sarbazvatan, EDBA - Senior Advisor and Research Fellow

Research Interests:

  • Industry 5.0
  • Strategic Technology Management
  • Digitally Empowered Circular Economy
  • Digital and Responsible Innovation and Transformation
  • Digital and Responsible Leadership, Governance, and Competitiveness

Kary Bheemaiah - Senior Research Fellow

Research Interests:

  • Blockchain
  • Monetary and Fiscal Policy
  • Complexity Theory
  • Social Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Participative Narrative Inquiry
  • Quantitative Social Dynamics
  • Evolutionary Psychology

Kary is the author of “The Blockchain Alternative”

Danny Goh - Research Fellow

Research Interests:

  • Applied Science
  • Entrepreneurship & Product Development
  • Artificial Intelligence – Intelligence Automation
  • Internet of Things – connectivity in industrial automation

Josh Entsminger - Research Fellow

Research Interests:

  • Future of Work
  • Economic Development
  • Strategic Thinking
  • Technology and Policy
  • Scenario Design and Strategic Foresight
  • Fourth Industrial Revolution and Converging Technologies
  • Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Competitive Advantage
  • Knowledge Economies and the Geography of Production

Tatiana Harkiolakis - Research Fellow

Research Interests:

  • Digital sustainable entrepreneurship
  • Circular business models and shared value creation
  • Disruptive innovation ecosystems
  • Regional entrepreneurship ecosystems

CPC - Paris: Meet the Team

Dr. Mark Esposito, PhD. - Director of the CPC - Paris

The Center for Policy and Competitiveness is led by Professor Mark Esposito, who holds appointments at Harvard University’s Division of Continuing Education.

He served from 2015 to 2019 as Institutes Council Co-Leader, at the Microeconomics of Competitiveness program (MOC) at the Institute of Strategy and Competitiveness, at Harvard Business School under the mentorship of Professor Michael E. Porter and as Founding Research Fellow of the Circular Economy Center at the Judge’s Business School at University of Cambridge, from 2016 to 2020. He is a Co-Founder at Nexus FrontierTech, an AI scale-up venture and research lab and Co-Founder and Chairman of the Strategic Foresight Board of the Circular Economy Alliance, an Edutech firm for certifications on the circular economy. He was inducted in 2016 on the radar of Thinkers50 as one of the 30 most prominent rising business thinkers in the world and among the top 50 sustainability thinkers in the world by Thinkers360. He is a Senior Advisor to the Ideation Center of Strategy& at PwC in Dubai and to the UC Berkeley SkyDeck incubator. He has equally joined the India Dialog at Stanford University’s US Asia Technology Center in 2022.

Additionally to his role at Harvard, Mark is also a professor of business and Economics at Hult International Business School, globally. He holds Fellowships at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, The Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government in Dubai and the Global Federation of Competitiveness Councils, a branch of the US Competitiveness Council. He has founded the Lab-Center for Competitiveness at Grenoble Ecole de Management, which has become the largest producer of cluster case studies in the world.

He sits on Competitiveness Boards in Italy, India, the Netherlands and the US, among institutional roles where he advised Cities, Governments and UN Agencies. He is part of the Global Expert Network of the World Economic Forum, a member of the Future of Production Team as well as a contributor to 3 WEF reports on Innovation-Driven Entrepreneurship, Collaborative Innovation, and Sustainable Production.

Outside of academia, Mark is an entrepreneur and he co-founded Nexus FrontierTech, an AI studio. In 2016 Mark was named one of the emerging tomorrow’s thought leaders most likely to reinvent capitalism by Thinkers50, the world’s premier ranking of management thinkers, and inducted into the “Radar” of the 30 most influential thinkers, on the rise.

Besides being an advisor and professor, Mark is also a bestselling author and has published several books over the years. Click here for his full book publication list.

He obtained his PhD from the International School of Management in Paris and New York as well as an Executive Doctorate of Business Administration from Ecole des Ponts Business School.

Daphne Halkias - Distinguished Research Fellow

Research Interests:

  • Family Business, Executive Coaching
  • Sustainable Business Strategy, Circular Economy
  • Social Factors of Sustainability in Smart Cities, Innovation Trends in the Urban Environment
  • Social Innovation
  • Digital Entrepreneurship
  • Digital Disruption’s Impact on Leadership
  • Managerial Competencies for the Agile Organization
  • Future Studies and Social Forecasting in Business
  • Digital Disruption in Business Education

Raed Awamleh - Research Fellow

Research Interests:

  • Public Leadership and Governance
  • Middle East Geopolitics
  • Public Policy
  • Government practices and frameworks

Fernando Alberti, Ph.D. - Distinguished Research Fellow

Research Interests:

  • Competitiveness
  • Open Innovation
  • Cluster Theory
  • Strategy
  • Family Business Management
  • Entrepreneurship
Saman Sarbazvatan

Saman Sarbazvatan, EDBA - Senior Advisor and Research Fellow

Research Interests:

  • Industry 5.0
  • Strategic Technology Management
  • Digitally Empowered Circular Economy
  • Digital and Responsible Innovation and Transformation
  • Digital and Responsible Leadership, Governance, and Competitiveness

Kary Bheemaiah - Senior Research Fellow

Research Interests:

  • Blockchain
  • Monetary and Fiscal Policy
  • Complexity Theory
  • Social Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Participative Narrative Inquiry
  • Quantitative Social Dynamics
  • Evolutionary Psychology

Kary is the author of “The Blockchain Alternative”

Danny Goh - Research Fellow

Research Interests:

  • Applied Science
  • Entrepreneurship & Product Development
  • Artificial Intelligence – Intelligence Automation
  • Internet of Things – connectivity in industrial automation

Josh Entsminger - Research Fellow

Research Interests:

  • Future of Work
  • Economic Development
  • Strategic Thinking
  • Technology and Policy
  • Scenario Design and Strategic Foresight
  • Fourth Industrial Revolution and Converging Technologies
  • Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Competitive Advantage
  • Knowledge Economies and the Geography of Production

Tatiana Harkiolakis - Research Fellow

Research Interests:

  • Digital sustainable entrepreneurship
  • Circular business models and shared value creation
  • Disruptive innovation ecosystems
  • Regional entrepreneurship ecosystems

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