According to a study presented by Ernst & Young, Italy’s data economy could generate revenues equivalent to around 2.8% of the country’s GDP, about 50 billion euro. But during the pandemic, weaker companies have lost even more ground
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In his book Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events , the economist and Nobel laureate Robert Shiller reveals the close connection between stories, individual behaviours and the economy
As the Professor of Business Ethics and sustainable development explains: This approach lays the foundations for a better balance in the growth of companies, society and the environment, offering strategic tools and successful, new business practices
The pandemic has thrown the world’s airlines into crisis, and state funding will only go part of the way to stemming its losses. Coronavirus has exacerbated the pre-existing challenges the industry was facing and the decline in business travel will not help recovery
According to Alec Ross, American technology expert and former Senior Advisor for Innovation during the Obama administration, we need to see this time of crisis as an opportunity to rethink the future of our economy and society
Estimates by ISMEA (Italy’s service institute for the agricultural and food market) state that by the end of the year the country’s hospitality industry could lose up to 40% of its turnover. This is a very real downturn in the market that is likely to have a serious impact on the future of many city centres.
In the experts’ opinion, four things need to de done: digitalise the country, update education, support the more innovative SMEs and reform the justice system These will be crucial steps in the post-Covid recovery.
Airbnb, Uber, WeWork & the largest companies in the sharing economy have been badly hit by Covid-19. Has the sharing economy reached the end of the line? We asked Marta Mainieri, founder of Collaboriamo.org and curator of Sharitaly
Former minister Fioramonti explains the idea at the core of his book The World after GDP’: To achieve economic growth, the economic system of the future will need to optimize production and consumption instead of maximizing them, as is the case today
There are over 100,000 people in Italy who have not locked down: staying at home is not for them – they go out to help others. They are Italy’s volunteers. Without them, the Covid-19 emergency would be even tougher.
We are in the middle of a challenge called evolution’ – a transformation involving companies, workers and entire countries . A face to face with Luciano Malgaroli, founder and CEO of the A&T (Automation & Testing) specialist trade fair.
The candidate for the US democratic party primaries has made a proposal for the institution of a basic income of one thousand euros for each citizen, to bolster the economy and abolish inequality. The concept is not new and has already been tested in various parts of the world (including Italy). The results are, however, contradictory. Here is why.
Our country should stop selling cars with diesel or petrol engines by 2035 and switch to electric cars. New skills, new professional profiles and more research will be needed
“Psychology and the Good Life”, taught by Laurie Santos at Yale, has become the most popular course in the history of the prestigious American university. Yet there is no shortage of examples in Italy as well
Software developers, engineers and computer scientists will be leading the first phase of creating a virtual reality for avatars. But eventually a detailed world will have to be created, and this will only be possible with architects, designers, mathematicians and many other professional profiles.