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      • Venice
        • 22 May 2015
         
         

        Confidence, responsibility, merit: leaving Italy’s partisan divisions behind

          Discussions at this Aspen Seminars for Leaders session centered around trust, accountability and meritocracy as the keys to piecing back together a country suffering for some time now from serious afflictions and dysfunctions. The picture painted was one of institutions that do not trust the general public or private enterprise, with the result that the country’s political and economic life is marked by growing hyper-regulation. This excess of rules was characterized as the product of a lack of trust, and, in turn, as producing greater corruption and disreputable behavior.

        • Venice
          • 22 May 2015
           
           

          Sustainability and new technologies in a consumer culture

            There can be no denying that a huge paradigm shift underway and that both the crisis and the irruption of new technologies are undoubtedly contributing factors.  It means there is more information available and that it is accessible by a great many people and we are witnessing a strengthening of the relationship between “equals”.  This means that when deciding to buy one thing rather than another, consumers are increasingly likely to place greater trust in the opinions of other consumers who have actually tried out the product in question than in the information provided by compan

          • Venice
            • 22 May 2015
             
             

            Health in the 21st century

              This session of the 2015 round of Aspen Seminars for Leaders focused on the key role of health and wellbeing in ensuring Italy’s development and prosperity. It was noted, in this regard, that medicine has taken incredible strides in recent years thanks to new discoveries, a case in point being the advances made possible by the mapping of the genome, which enable diseases that were untreatable up until a few years ago to be successfully fought.

            • Venice
              • 22 May 2015
               
               

              Developing and innovating infrastructure

                The opportunity to restart work on the country’s infrastructure involves and brings together those operating in the transport and services sector, public administrators and those who use it.

              • Rome
                • 20 May 2015
                 
                 

                Markets, competition, rules: Italy, Europe, and everyone else

                  Antitrust regulations take a truly dynamic approach to the issue in question.  They adapt to the continual evolution of the markets, and objectives evolve with time.  Globalization and the international crisis are both factors that have a significant effect on competition. The original inspiration behind America’s 1890 Sherman Act has more-or-less been forgotten but its objective, in fact, was to protect small businesses from “the giants”.

                • Rome
                  • 6 May 2015
                   
                   

                  Combating counterfeit products to protect businesses and consumers

                    Proceedings at this national roundtable kicked off with the participants acknowledging that the illicit trade in goods and services, today more than ever manifested by smuggling and, more importantly, by product piracy, is an endemic and growing phenomenon in both Italy and Europe.

                  • Genoa
                    • 19 April 2015
                     
                     

                    Reshaping the present and the future: innovative ideas, strategies, and visions

                      Setting the stage for discussions at this National Conference was the observation that, in today’s increasingly heterogeneous world, innovation would seem to be an obligatory strategy for steering the major environmental, economic and social transformations that the world is facing. It was emphasized, however, that innovative processes are not spontaneous phenomena, and indeed have their own precise logic and conditions that enable them to thrive.

                    • Bresso (Milan)
                      • 15 April 2015
                       
                       

                      Health challenges for Italian businesses: thinking global

                        This meeting for the Aspen Junior Fellows focused on ways in which Italy’s great store of health knowledge and learning might be deployed to come to grips with rapidly evolving challenges in the health sector. It was noted, for instance, that life expectancy has increased by three months a year since 1951. This trend, combined with a drop in birth rates, has determined an outlook for Italy marked by a rapidly aging population, with social repercussions of major significance in the near future.

                      • Milan
                        • 30 March 2015
                         
                         

                        Of youths and robots. The digital enterprise and its future

                          The panel discussion accompanying the launch of the latest issue of the Institute’s journal Aspenia was kick-started with the observation that while robots are still not even close to being human, they have certainly become central to the workplace and industry. Although some view automation and robotics as potential threats to employment, it was felt that they actually offer young people and others besides new work opportunities.

                        • Milan
                          • 23 March 2015
                           
                           

                          Regulating banking foundations in Italy: legislation or negotiation?

                            The opening premise of debate at this national roundtable was that Italy’s banking foundations are complex entities, operating as both investors and key players in the financial sector, but also as leading actors in the non-profit sector, an important component of any participatory democracy (like that in Italy) called upon not only to produce economic goods but values as well.

                          • Milan
                            • 19 March 2015
                             
                             

                            Women in business. Innovation and technology: the Israeli experience

                              This talk-debate session, sponsored by the Valore D association, Aspen Institute Italia and Women for Expo, explored the approaches and trends that characterize female entrepreneurship, the distinguishing features of this segment of the business community, as well as existing weaknesses that could undermine its development and growth. The event was organized as part of Aspen Italia’s Women in Business project, which aims to create a transnational network of debate and reflection in support of female leadership.

                            • Rome
                              • 18 March 2015
                               
                               

                              Innovation and market trends in a knowledge society

                                Internet, an ongoing revolution. With its many regulatory questions still unanswered (from fiscal to privacy, from copyright to net-neutrality), the call to change business models are of an economic order. For some, it’s the era of the fifth technological revolution which won’t only effect how industry is run, but also how States are run. With this in mind, it could also become a unique opportunity to win decisive battles for the planet such as pollution and poverty.

                              • Castelvecchio Pascoli (LU)
                                • 27 February 2015
                                 
                                 

                                The Aspen Institute Italia Seminar on Values and Society

                                  For the nineth year running and in conjunction with The Aspen Institute, the Aspen Seminar on Values and Society was held in Italy.

                                  The seminar is dedicated to commemorating Ennio Presutti, one of the founders of Aspen Institute Italia, who passed away in 2008. 

                                • Rome
                                  • 18 February 2015
                                   
                                   

                                  Competitiveness and Italy’s job market

                                    Kick-starting proceedings at this national roundtable event was recognition that debate on the state of the labor market in Italy and reflection on how the country measures up with conditions and models in other countries (Germany and the Netherlands in particular) are now more than ever imperative, at a time when the jobless rate is higher than the EU average (and is, indeed, the highest for youth unemployment), and when manufacturing output and consumer prices are in decline.