At the young age of 27, he launched Airbnb, challenging the cliché never to trust strangers, and winning the title of “dad” of sharing economy. What about the future of work and of the company? It all comes down to trusting others
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The Hub Criativo do Beato, soon to be the world’s largest incubator, will open in Lisbon in a few months.
At the age of almost 70 years, the visionary founder of Virgin Records, a 5 billion dollar empire, has absolutely no intention of retiring. And continues his investments. What is the next goal? A revolution in the food industry.
Why do new technologies sometimes not stimulate productivity? And why is growing productivity not reflected in growing wages? Two paradoxes that economists have been puzzling out since the onset of computers
Nothing could be worse than closing up like a clam and trying to stem technology because we find it intimidating. All this does is make us lose contact with the frontier of innovation, and turn away the best young talents
Training young people is the heart of the H-Farm program, a made in Italy incubator located in Treviso: now available the first master in Digital Management addressing young talents who aim at catching the opportunities of a fast-changing world.
What with apps and self-service tills, stores look set to change forever
Since creating the first e-commerce platform focusing on books more than twenty years ago, Jeff Bezos has revolutionised the business models of the most consolidated markets, and seems to have no intention of stopping. The next objective: to conquer space
Digital reputation is gaining increasing importance in the labour market. Employees and collaborators are the most effective influencers of the corporate brand, in an unprecedented mechanism that promotes both personal and corporate branding
Not just museums and cinemas, but veritable companies specialising in video games, fashion and design. These companies form one of the key pillars of the Italian economy. Which is why it makes sense to invest in them
In Silicon Valley, there is no field in which investments are greater. And the frontier of deep learning, a possibility for machines to learn autonomously, tends to make futurologists very nervous. But some people think we won’t have anything to worry about.
Marco Taisch, one of the main Italian experts of digital manufacturing and industry 4.0, has faith in the Italian recovery, fostered also by technological innovation of companies, and he is betting on the European agreements: “We can become a system with France and Germany.”
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.