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Italy is only going to be able to jumpstart its economy if it wages serious battle against the increasingly widespread tendency to denigrate experts and manages to make the most of the under-utilized talent of women. This according to Tommaso Valletti, Head of the Department of Economics and Public Policy of London’s Imperial College Business School and former Chief Competition Economist on the European Commission.

Do delays in the achievement of gender equality have an impact on the country’s economic performance?

We are going to have to wait a few years, perhaps even a decade, to see self-driving cars on our roads. But in the meantime, the sector is developing rapidly, thanks not least to the researchers who are studying the implications of this new mobility model for the current transport system. One of them, Marco Pavone who, as head of the Autonomous Systems Lab and co-director of the Center for Automotive Research, both at Stanford University, is dealing with various critical issues regarding this technology, from how algorithms learn to the debate on self-driving vehicle safety.

Television isn’t dead – it’s just moved house. As the broadcast programming model declines, television production is having a renaissance thanks to multi-screen platforms.

The Asia-Pacific region is a vast and heterogeneous one, but one that also offers Italian businesses a wealth of opportunities. The infrastructure market is growing, and interest remains high in luxury goods and the Made in Italy label, starting with the agro-food sector. So explains Andrea Monni, a partner at Algebra – a firm specialized in support services for Italian companies in the Asia-Pacific region – based on his awareness that internationalization and control over the production line in the case of consumer goods are essential to growth and competitiveness.