The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the concept of “university third mission”, whose growing importance has led institutions and researchers to look for indicators to assess this dimension. The need to evaluate these activities not only comes from the recognition that indicators could allow universities to understand their performance and foster […]

The purpose of this paper is to describe the phenomenon of recuperated factories in Argentine, i.e. Empresas Recuperadas por sus Trabajadores (ERT), especially for what concerns their relationship with the university and with local communities. ERT were born after the crisis that hit Argentine in 2001, and have become important players in their local communities, […]

The purpose of this paper is to study the involvement of the “crowd” in designing public policies. To do so, we want to answer two research questions: the first one, whether crowdsourcing and crowdstorming are two different and separate phenomena or just two labels that can be applied to the same processes, the second one […]