Publication Authors: Elena Candelo

Maria Cristina Pietronudo, Mario Sorrentino, Elena Candelo

This paper explores how AI startups articulate their value propositions—a critical element in defining and communicating value to customers. AI startups, in fact, struggle to align their technological capabilities with real market needs. Drawing on an exploratory multiple-case study of ten Italian AI startups, this research tries to investigate emerging patterns and main challenges AI […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2025: Knowledge Futures: AI, Technology, and the New Business Paradigm
205-210
Ciro Troise, Diego Matricano, Elena Candelo, Mario Sorrentino

The spread of new Financial Technologies, better known as Fintech, offers many opportunities and challenges for entrepreneurs, however little is known on Fintech development. This study describes five areas in order to improve our knowledge on Fintech development: regulation, infrastructure, technologies, finance, innovations. Crowdfunding (CF) platforms are among the main players of the so-called Fintech […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2020 – Knowledge in Digital Age
235-243
Elena Candelo, Cecilia Casalegno, Chiara Civera, Fabrizio Mosca

The purpose of the research is to identify and categorize value co-creation projects carried out by three main stakeholder groups of the coffee supply chain (large corporation, Non Governmental Organizations and dependent stakeholders alias farmers) and provide a management model for the value co-creation project implementation. Secondly, we seek to gather dependent stakeholders’ perception on […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2017 – Knowledge Management in the 21st Century: Resilience, Creativity and Co-creation
1498-1513