Industrial Strategy Lab: Clusters, Competitiveness, and Policy

This immersive program begins in Mumbai, examining financial capital, corporate governance, and investment ecosystems that enable industrial expansion.

Students then transition to the Pune industrial corridor, where manufacturing clusters reveal how policy incentives translate into production systems, supply-chain networks, labor markets, and export pathways.

The program concludes in Delhi with policy analysis sessions that connect field observation to national industrial strategy and global competitiveness debates.

Students will:

Examine firm-level responses to industrial incentives.
Conduct supply-chain mapping within a manufacturing cluster.
Analyze productivity constraints across infrastructure, labor, and logistics.
Evaluate Make in India and PLI policy design against implementation realities.
Ask: What determines whether a manufacturing cluster becomes globally competitive?
Produce a “Cluster Competitiveness Briefing” integrating policy and production analysis.

Business Administration

Operations Management

Supply Chain

International Trade

Public Policy

Industrial Engineering

Development Economics

Strategy & Management

Delhi

Mumbai (Financial & Corporate Ecosystem)

Pune Industrial Corridor (Manufacturing Clusters)

Day	Location	Academic Focus & Activities	Learning Emphasis
1	Mumbai	Arrival; orientation; introduction to India’s economic trajectory	Establishing industrial systems lens
2	Mumbai	Seminar: growth models, inequality, and industrial policy frameworks	Building macroeconomic grounding
3	Mumbai	Financial markets & capital allocation session; corporate ecosystem dialogue	Understanding capital–industry linkage
4	Mumbai	Firm observation toolkit; ecosystem mapping lab	Preparing cluster analysis methods
5	Pune	Transition to industrial corridor; cluster briefing	Moving from macro to production systems
6–7	Pune	Manufacturing ecosystem exposure; supply-chain mapping lab	Analyzing competitiveness constraints
8	Pune	Logistics, infrastructure & export systems session	Connecting production to global trade
9	Pune	Labor productivity & skill development dialogue	Examining human capital trade-offs
10	Delhi	Return; Make in India & PLI workshop	Interpreting incentive architecture
11	Delhi	Industrial data & competitiveness indicators lab	Evaluating policy evidence
12	Delhi	Cluster Competitiveness Briefing workshop	Integrating field and policy insight
13	Delhi	Departure	Closure