Ricerc@Sapienza

The research focuses attention on companies in the chemical-plastic sector, investigating corporate governance,
investment and financing decisions, innovation, profitability, and credit risk. The investigation method used is
mixed. The data and information were extracted from official databases and from a structured questionnaire. The
stratified random method was used for sampling. 178 firms are included in the sample. The results show a
prevalence of companies owned by a single person or a limited number of shareholders (in some cases of the same

The research aims to study the structural and functional characteristics of food and beverage companies, focusing on corporate governance, investment and financing decisions, innovation, profitability, and risk of insolvency. The analysis is based on a mixed type investigation method carried out on a random stratified sample of 274 firms.

This paper discusses a case study of blockchain used to address real business problems in the Italian banking sector. We use an exploratory case of the banking research and innovation centre promoted by the Italian Banking Association (ABI Lab), and show how the Interbank Spunta project implies the application of blockchain in interbank processes, with the aim at providing greater data transparency and visibility, faster execution, and the possibility of transfer checks and money directly within the application.

The work identifies the main enabling dimensions and the strategic drivers to foster value co-creation and sustainable innovation in service ecosystems. The aim is to explore how resource and knowledge integration, through technology-mediated interactions, can lead to the emergence of novelties (new products, services, processes, social, and environmental practices).

In a framework where Architecture Schools are seeing sharp declines in Italy due to reduced numbers of new enrolments and a general crisis of vocation and opportunities, there is a parallel phenomenon of growth in the number of institutions and training offers in the field of design; the proliferation of design schools is a phenomenon recognizable not only on the Italian landscape, but also in the whole panorama of the new international training “market.” This contribution examines on what foundational theoretical and practical bases the most advanced training models in the field of design

IoT innovations produce interesting opportunities, impact ethical and social aspects towards human society and influence operational and global aspects towards technical systems. These innovations appear a relevant case that opens new frontiers for electro forensic engineering and claims a “new regulatory approach” to promote analysis for testing in progress the evolution of the same innovations.

This paper analyzes the connection between innovation activities of
companies – implemented before crisis – and their performance –
measured at time of crisis. The companies listed in the STAR Market
Segment of the Italian Stock Exchange are analyzed. Innovation is
measured through the level of investments in total tangible and
intangible fixed assets in 2006–2007, while performance is captured
through growth – expressed by variations of sales, total assets and
employees – profitability – through ROI or ROS – and productivity –

Innovative processes, by their very definition, relate to phases of instability and transformation, characterized by the circumstances in which traditional schemes and models that belong to the cognitive endowment of the decision maker – and that can be defined as consolidated within its specific context of reference – appear ineffective, ending to be progressively not adequate, when reiterated in the attempt to be used to recover the balance of the organization.

The sharing economy represents an economic model based on the sharing of goods and services. In particular, this paper examines car sharing model, an attractive alternative to a self-owned car which has found large interest in the recent literature in different research fields. This study aims to investigate innovative and effective relocation strategies based on the analysis of data on users’ consumptions, for the constantly growing car sharing system.

The research, development and innovation programmes of the European Union play an important role for the development and competitiveness of the “old continent”. The aim of this paper is to briefly describe the policy that drives these programmes and give some insights on how they are assessed in order to measure the impact of public investment. In this work, we discuss the impacts on Gross Domestic Product and employment estimated by the European Commission for Framework Programme 7 with the results of a sample of 60 FP7 projects in three ICT domains.