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Economic and Social Sciences

Scientific Advisory Board

Open Innovation “all’Italiana”

Alberto Di Minin is a Research Fellow with the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE, University of California, Berkeley) and with the Management & Innovation Lab (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa). He is an Assistant Professor of Business Strategy at the Scuola Sant’Anna, as well as at the International School of Advanced Education SIAF, Volterrra.
His research deals with International Business and Innovation Management. In 2006 he got his Ph.D. with a dissertation on the internalization of R&D from U.C. Berkeley. Alberto has received a Master in Public Policy from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta and a Bachelor in Economics from the Scuola Sant’Anna.
An Extract of the IntroductionBy Henry Chesbrough and Alberto Di Minin
To explain the Italian case to a foreign observer, a scholar of innovation couldn't help but begin from a fundamental, and startling, observation: our country invests only roughly one percent of its gross domestic product in Research and Development(R&D), or rather only half of the average of OECD countries. The public component of this expense is slightly less than that of other nations and this pronounced difference between Italy and more advanced countries can be attributable to differences in private investment.

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Italian innovation day 2012

The Italian Innovation Day will be held on 23 of February at UC Berkeley, starting at 4:30pm. It is an action oriented investors’ day bringing together the best of Italian technology and innovation.

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Law: The European Union (EU) Facing the Global Arena: Standard Setting Bodies and Financial Regulation

by Giulia Bertezzolo

Ph.D at the University of Trento School of Law and Emile Noël Fellow at the New York University School of Law

Abstract

The article considers how the European Community deals with global standard setters operating within the financial sector. The starting point is the consideration of the growing importance of those bodies and their transformed role. Previously places devoted to the exchange of ideas, they have evolved into transnational regulatory bodies. These organizations issue their own standards, which officially have no binding force. Nevertheless, global “rules” spread out both quickly and internationally. As shown by some recent EC directives, despite the European Community’s weak representation within the standard setters, EC law seems to be strongly influenced by global standards. In order to understand through which process global standards get into the EC system and with what effects, the article highlights the relationships existing between the EC and the global regulatory systems. In particular, the research considers the participation of EU institutions in the decision-making process of global bodies, as well as the formal and informal links established by EC and global actors dealing with financial regulation. The essay concludes that by setting up a system similar to the global one, the European Union has provided the conditions for EC interests to be asserted at global level. This goal is mainly reached through the creation of permanent bodies made up of Member states’ national authorities.
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The European Union (EU) Facing the Global Arena: Standard Setting Bodies and Financial Regulation, by Giulia Bertezzolo. >>