Based on the definition of knowledge as commons, the aim to the paper is to investigate the impact of nudges and considerations stemming from behavioural economics on the promotion and enhancement of commons. Commons are described as goods (material and immaterial) belonging to specific community or to humanity as a whole, and we believe that […]
Technology transfer is one of the three dimensions of the university’s third mission, described as a process that allows an effective exchange of knowledge from the producer to the user. Indeed, while at the beginning of their existence universities were not concerned with social and economic issues, today they are completely involved in the development […]
The purpose of this paper is to analyse the state of the art about distance learning in Italian universities, in order to understand how higher education institutions are reacting to the change that occurred in the education market. Distance learning represents an upgraded version of lifelong learning, defined as each activity that starts in any […]
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 […]