Everyone likes to eat food cooked on the barbecue, but whilst in the western world, it is part and parcel of a convivial habit, often (…)Aspen at Expo – Clean cooking solutions for health and sustainability
The ongoing efforts to build a well functioning Energy Union in Europe should be seen in the context of major global changes related in various (…)Building the Energy Union
Discussions at this year’s Annual Conference for the Friends of Aspen centered on the long-term economic priority of sustainable development for future generations, viewed as (…)A positive economy: shaping the future
Underpinning discussions at this Aspen Junior Fellows roundtable were lawfulness and merit as dual pillars of intergenerational solidarity. It was observed that illegality curbs growth (…)Cross‐generation roundtable – Business: the value of rule of law
We need a new way of narrating Europe. We need it above all to counter the populist drift that has made anti-Europeanism its motto. Data (…)From obstacle to opportunity: how European institutions can help businesses and improve the job market
The picture that emerged from the work of the 2014 Focus on Industry session of the Aspen Seminars for Leaders was of an Italian industrial (…)Focus on industry: an agenda for growth
The global imbalances reflected in demographic trends, in terms of economic and safety levels, are huge, and must be considered as a central factor in (…)Demographics and migration in Europe: multiple challenges for complex societies
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 (…)Confidence, responsibility, merit: leaving Italy’s partisan divisions behind
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 (…)Sustainability and new technologies in a consumer culture
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 (…)Health in the 21st century
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 (…)Developing and innovating infrastructure
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 (…)Markets, competition, rules: Italy, Europe, and everyone else
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 (…)Combating counterfeit products to protect businesses and consumers
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 (…)Reshaping the present and the future: innovative ideas, strategies, and visions
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 (…)Health challenges for Italian businesses: thinking global
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 (…)Of youths and robots. The digital enterprise and its future
