Aims: The doctoral programme aims to achieve the following goals: the integration of the role of the state in the analysis of Industrial Economy, from the perspective of market regulations and from the implementation of microeconomic policies; the acquisition of knowledge on the economic agents’ behaviour; the understanding of the markets functioning when they behave imperfectly; the learning of tools to analyse the behaviour of economic agents and markets, both qualitatively and quantitatively. The doctoral studies shall guarantee the acquisition of the basic competences established in the Spanish Qualifications Framework for Higher Education.

Description: Given that the Postgraduate Studies Programme in Industrial Economy has a research and academic nature, most of the students make the Doctoral Thesis, either in the postgraduate programme or in foreign universities. As it is a rigorous postgraduate programme with high quality and exigent contents, this is addressed to students really motivated in becoming experts in industrial economy, in its two fundamental areas: markets and organisations are part of the programme. The Doctoral Theses defended in the current Doctoral Programme are nine (most of them granted with the European Award) and the next year four more will be defended. It should be noted that the funding for the Doctoral Theses developed has been obtained, mainly, through grants awarded by competitive programmes: most of the doctoral students have been granted with a FPU Scholarship from the Ministry or with a FPI Scholarship by the Valencian Department of the Valencian Community; even some students who have developed their theses in foreign universities (two in North-America, California and Maryland, one in Holland, one in France) have been funded by the pertinent universities, due to their excellent training and knowledge. So far, all doctoral students who have finished their studies have find a job and either they have post-doctoral contracts (2 of them in Universities or Institutions of European Research) or they are working in private companies, even at the United States.