design

Milan

12 April 2013

Revising the design industry: networks, culture, innovation, and business management

Driving discussions at this national roundtable was an awareness that any attempt at positing a restructure of the Italian design industry must contend with the simultaneously complex yet interesting nature of the way it currently operates.

Milan

11 April 2011

The design industry: value added for Italy’s economic growth

Added value of over 140 billion euros and employment for around 3.3 million people: this was the snapshot, in figures, presented at this National Interest roundtable session of the engine of Italy’s manufacturing system, driven by the country’s leading sectors – the so-called “4 Fs” of the Made-in-Italy industry: Ferrari cars and non-electronic machinery and equipment, fashion and clothing, food and beverage, and furniture and wood products.