320 times greater than the store of knowledge kept in the legendary Library of Alexandria, and representing a mass of data which, if stored on (…)How important is big data for business and society?
With issue 66 of the Institute’s Aspenia journal spotlighting, among other things, the Expo 2015 world’s fair to be held in Milan, the panel discussion (…)Smart cities, technology and sustainability. The challenge of Expo 2015
Kick-starting this national roundtable event was the observation that the question of the competitiveness of Italian firms in global markets can be summed up in (…)Helping Italian SMEs compete on global markets
Discussions at this event focused primarily on the profound changes taking place in the news and publishing industry. It was remarked that, on the one (…)Transforming a company in a sector that is undergoing transformation
A year on from Aspen Italia’s 2013 National Conference on the banking system, participants gathered for this third edition of the event to take stock (…)Italy’s banking system: roles and responsibilities in the face of new rules and the real economy
The participants at this National Roundtable viewed as telling that in the nigh-on seventy-year history of the Italian Republic, there have been several instances of (…)Reforming Italy’s public administration to spur competitiveness
This second edition of the Cross-generational Roundtable, aimed at bringing together associates of Aspen Institute Italia spanning several generations to discuss various topics of shared (…)Cross‐generation roundtable – Beyond equal opportunity: women in business and in the public sector
Education, welfare and the gender gap were at the top of the agenda of discussions at this international roundtable, which featured guest speaker Khalid Malik, (…)From vulnerabilities to resilience: strengthening human development
The three issues explored at the recent Aspen International Conference event – the “World Economy Dialogue” held in Rome on June 30, 2014 – were (…)Joint meeting between the Friends of Aspen and the Aspen Junior Fellows – Topic: the “World Economy” international conference
Spearheading discussions at this national roundtable discussion was the affirmation that Italy could become a major force in sustainable prosperity, but in order to fully (…)Health, environment and lifestyle: can Italy be a model of sustainable well‐being?
Discussions at this National Roundtable commenced with a reference to the old cartographic practice of marking unknown and dangerous lands with the expression “Hic sunt (…)The “abuse of rights” in public finance administration and tax law
Launching discussions at this World Economy Conference was an acknowledgement by those in attendance that the recovery from the economic crisis of recent years has (…)The next frontiers: tapping the potential of our economies
Running through the debate at this year’s Annual Conference for the Friends of Aspen was an awareness that,in an increasingly competitive and complex market, entrepreneurs (…)The new entrepreneur: international, open to risk, good at communications
The participants at this national roundtable noted, by way of opening premise, that the luxury and high-end markets represent a worldwide business worth 730 billion (…)The Italian luxury goods industry: cultural and manufacturing aspects
Kick-starting talks at this session of the Aspen Mediterranean Initiative was the observation that the arduous and variegated evolution of the Mediterranean region needs to (…)Arab Evolutions. The Mediterranean after the global slowdown
In the immediate post-war period Italy chose to adopt a lightweight economic policy, and it remained as such for the following few decades. Since the (…)Making the public sector work: of efficiency and effectiveness
