PRIN 2022 PNRR e PRIN 2022- DESP - Dipartimento di Economia, Società, Politica

PRIN 2022 PNRR

RE-ADJUST: REgional Assessment of Distributive impacts of a JUst and Sustainable Transition

Breve descrizione, finalità e risultati attesi: RE-ADJUST will provide a framework of analysis for an advanced understanding and assessment of the distributional impacts of: 1) changes in consumption behaviour of households driven by the reactivity to regulatory policies for the sustainable transition; 2) structural changes occurring in local economies and geographical diffusion of impacts; 3) evolutionary patterns of the labour market related to the radical shift in technological trajectories due to the twin green and digital transition. Bearing in mind these general research objectives, RE-ADJUST will provide a local-based complex quantitative tool ensuring a wide coverage of different geographical and sectoral scales of analysis, in order to inform the policy making process on the economic and social feasibility and acceptability of the implementation of the main targets of the EU recovery and resilience strategy. RE-ADJUST will consider a selection of agents, sectors and local realms that are affected by the sustainable transition strategy and the recovery measures included in the more recent EU climate and energy packages. To this end, RE-ADJUST will rely on cutting-edge empirical research tools, including spatial econometrics and micro-based analysis for policy evaluation, in order to assist the policy making process in designing economically feasible and socially desirable adaptation and mitigation actions at local level. The core tool in RE-ADJUST will consist in a platform dedicated to share data and results collected under the project to allow full replication and updating of the informative basis at the finest scale on geographical basis. REgional JUst and Sustainable Transition MAPping (RE-JUST-MAP) tool will provide open access to and spatial visualisation of the indicators from data collected at sub-national scale with a minimum resolution at NUTS2 level. RE-JUST-MAP will be at the intersection between data hosting platforms and geospatial data visualisation dashboard, in order to be used as an informative basis for scientific purposes as well as for policy making advice. The value added of RE-JUST-MAP consists in providing to the adopters a full understanding of the workflow developed to build the data, allowing a full replicability of the results and tools to develop additional analyses. As examples of replication possibilities, RE-ADJUST will provide two deliverables dedicated to: i) an evaluation exercise of the transmission risk across regulated and non-regulated activities to estimate the local multiplier effects building on contributions in labour economics and economic geography through the implementation of spatial micro-econometrics techniques; ii) an analysis of climate induced-energy expenditure-energy poverty nexus accounting for the spatial and temporal dynamics across regions in the distribution across agents of the policy induced socio-economic impacts.

Importo totale UniUrb: € 114.053

Periodo: 30/11/2023 - 29/11/2025

Struttura UniUrb di riferimento: Dipartimento di Economia, Società, Politica (DESP)

Referente UniUrb: Prof. Giovanni Marin

Codice Progetto: P2022NRAP2

CUP: H53D23009510001

PRIN 2022

Share_Div: Unveiling the social lives of shared housing between strangers in Italy

Breve descrizione, finalità e risultati attesi: Why do people that are mutually strangers live together, potentially for long, under the same roof? What makes theirdwelling experience ‘successful’ or not, and what broader societal questions does it show and redefi ne, e.g. in terms ofinequality and discrimination in housing markets and pathways? These are emerging research and policy questions atthe intersection of housing, home and social welfare studies. Shared housing among strangers is an understudiedconfi guration of the housing market in Italy, likely relevant both for its reach and its biographical implications. It maybe driven by market dynamics, or by policy and grassroots solidarity initiatives. It may be a second-best or even anemergency option, possibly after a biographical rupture, or a deliberately chosen one. What are the key commonalitiesand societal implications across its diff erent drivers and temporalities? What factors shape everyday boundary-makingand home-making under the same roof, depending on the quality of housing infrastructures, on the characteristics oflocal contexts and on intersectional and interpersonal encounters between diverse dwellers (in terms of age, gender,class, ethnicity, and life projects)? How do inequalities and vulnerabilities shape the shared experience of a house, andthe opportunities to enter or leave it? And what is the role of local labour and housing markets, and of welfare policiesand civil society initiatives, in accounting for the distribution, composition and sustainability of shared housing? On all these questions, little and sparse knowledge is available on the case of Italy. Against this background,Shared_Div aims to a comparative analysis of the social boundaries, material cultures and patterns of interaction thatshape everyday life under the same roof, at micro level; of the interaction between shared housing and the externalstructure of opportunity, including place-specifi c forms of sociability, at meso level; of the potential and limitations ofthis housing confi guration to address emerging housing needs, and the role of competing actors and stakeholders inorienting it, at macro level. Working across these analytical levels, Shared_Div combines multi-sited in-depth fi eldworkwith a systematic exploration of the external determinants of shared housing, in critical conversation with housing,home, migration and local welfare studies. Based on a range of methodological options to capture local diff erencesand the intersectional implications of dwellers’ backgrounds and housing pathways, Shared_Div will provide asociologically thick account in two respects: the mechanisms shaping the lived experience of shared housing, and theprospects and dilemmas of local authorities, market and civil society in coping with it. The project will enhance thetheoretical and empirical understanding of shared housing in diversity, and will provide an evidence base for policy-making and service provision in local housing and welfare.

Importo totale del finanziamento: € 241.350

Importo totale UniUrb: € 80.981

Periodo: 15/10/2023 – 14/10/2025

Struttura UniUrb di riferimento: Dipartimento di Economia, Società, Politica (DESP)

Referente UniUrb: Prof. Eduardo Barberis

Codice progetto: 2022MCAA2T

CUP H53D23005910006

Theories, Philosophies and Politics of Bodies in Network-Connected Digital Universes

Breve descrizione, finalità e risultati attesi: The project assembles a team of researchers with the purpose of an interdisciplinary analysis of the relation between Text and Body in network-connected digital universes through an approach that considers recent philosophical and political theories. Since the 1990s, the interplay between digital technology and communicative networks has become increasingly pervasive. This interplay creates network-connected digital universes where specific tools come to help manipulate, organize, store and transmit information. Thus, the interaction between bodies becomes more and more virtualized and computer-mediated. This horizon of virtual interaction produces an epochal transformation of the relation between text and body because it engenders an entirely new genre of text. We refer to this type of text as “textual bodies”. “Textual bodies” are the texts by which a body interacts with other bodies in digital universes. When we interact through textual bodies, we are bodily involved. Today, in digital and network-connected universes, the body becomes text since its thoughts, stories, images, dialogues, and experiences become written and storable texts. Textual bodies are very complex texts because they are text involved in a constant process of formation and transformation. Focusing on textual bodies as an entirely new subject of analysis and considering textual bodies as processes of constitution of systems of sense, the project works on the grammatologies rather than on the more traditional grammar of digital texts. This means that the primary intent of the project is not to describe the neutral structure by which textual bodies communicate but to study the non-neutral and political norms of the processes of writing and re-writing textual bodies as systems of sense. Textual bodies represent a new challenging subject, requiring, on the one hand, new interdisciplinary analytical methodologies and, on the other hand, a transformation both of the idea of body and the idea of text. This goal can be achieved only through a philosophical, political and pragmatic approach that takes into account some recent theories of the body that problematize this notion in a non-naturalistic sense, making it worthwhile to interpret the complex phenomena that are crossing it, especially in the confrontation with virtual realities and metaverses. The project intends to develop a new theoretical model of the body and a new theoretical model of text, suitable for the new forms of writing and for the new modalities of interaction in network-connected digital universes. In this sense, the project aims to analyse the social networks and the new places of the virtual relationship as social spaces to understand if they are “systems” designed and structured in such a way as to promote the emergence of conflictual relationships.

Importo totale del finanziamento: € 301.669

Importo totale UniUrb: € 80.414

Periodo: 17/10/2023 – 16/10/2025

Struttura UniUrb di riferimento: Dipartimento di Economia, Società, Politica (DESP)

Referente UniUrb: Prof. Cristiano Maria Bellei

Codice progetto: 2022FENML2

CUP: H53D23006870006

Fandom democracy? Celebrity and new forms of citizens' engagement

Breve descrizione, finalità e risultati attesi: The project poses a provocative question: are our contemporary democracies transforming themselves into “fan-democracies” (Van Zoonen 2004)? As citizens’ political identities become fluid and less ideological, could political belongings and participation be grounded on forms of fandom? It has been claimed that political leaders are currently represented as celebrities. The phenomenon has been mostly analysed by focusing on who political celebrities are, how they are covered by the media and how they capitalize on their celebrity status. What has been less thoroughly explored is how citizens are affected by leaders’ celebrity strategies in the era of digital media. Analogously, there is much left to say about the overall impact of celebrity and popular culture on the public debate. The project employs a mixed-methods approach – including survey research and the analysis of social media contents – to explore how citizens relate to celebrity politics, namely how they assess the personal disclosures of political leaders and to what extent they feel a sense of “intimacy at a distance” with political figures. The project intends to investigate whether citizens are only an audience that attend celebrity performances or have also become producers of content, especially on social media. Through the analysis of the activities and practices of political celebrities’ followers, it will be assessed if they might be considered as true fans, for whom the fandom experience plays a role in the construction of their political identities.  Overall, the project will offer an innovative contribution that may expand our knowledge of the interplay between political communication and entertainment. Empirical research is designed to cover in an especially extended way Italy along with other relevant European national cases to provide comparative insights. In particular, we will carry out a cross-national survey in seven countries (Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, United Kingdom); a second survey on an Italian sample to explore key issues in greater depth; an analysis of social media regarding fans of Italian, French and British leaders. The project aims to develop a theoretical framework to be used in further research. Empirical findings have the potential to foster public debate on how citizens relate to, and bond with politicians and how the concept of political engagement can be reformulated to make sense of new practices that may increase inclusiveness, especially concerning some specific segments of citizens, such as young people or people traditionally less involved in politics. On the other hand, it will explore whether forms of anti-fandom – whose communities are held together by opposition to political actors – potentially fuel polarization and extremism.

Importo totale del finanziamento: € 250.417

Importo totale UniUrb: € 91.334

Periodo: 15/10/2023 – 14/10/2025

Struttura UniUrb di riferimento: Dipartimento di Economia, Società, Politica (DESP)

Referente UniUrb: Prof. Luigino Ceccarini

Codice progetto: 2022HZ4N3H

CUP: H53D23005840006

A Multidimensional Model for the Transition of SMEs to the Circular Economy

Breve descrizione, finalità e risultati attesi: European small and medium enterprises (SMEs) account for 99% of total EU business and contribute 85% to employment by providing 2/3 of total private sector jobs (Eurostat, 2018). The challenge launched by the EU to make the economy more circular is a great opportunity that companies, even small ones, must be able to seize. The Covid-19 crisis, the war in Ukraine and the consequent volatility of raw materials price strengthen the need to shift from a linear economy (LE) to a circular economy (CE) to overcome a no longer sustainable development model. While large companies are more organised in handling transition to the CE in a holistic way, SME) apply isolated and focused circular practices and struggle to rethink their business model. Existing literature outlines the main assets for sustainable competitive success: a governance oriented towards responsibility; the relationships with stakeholders; the attitude to innovation. At the same time, great focus is put on various aspects of CE implementation (e.g., core principles, business models, risk management, measurement tools, reporting). However, the need for an integrated approach to the CE transition (Chen, 2020) still remains; in particular, such an approach should drive the objective setting and selection of actions and resources to support the adoption of circular models, jointly enhancing the main assets of sustainable development. This research aims to: fill a gap highlighted in the literature by providing a methodological approach to support SMEs’ strategic transition to the CE in a comprehensive manner (Lewandowski, 2016; Korhonen et al., 2017); provide SMEs with an application model, which takes the form of a strategic management tool for the evaluation and planning of circularity, and which guarantees a strategic and non-fragmented approach to the CE, also considering different sector specificities. The model planning is based on the engagement of key stakeholders for the selection of relevant sectors for the achievement of the SDGs, the identification of key performance indicators and sectoral benchmarks for each CE founding asset, as well as the testing activity in pilot companies and geographical areas. Finally, the research outcomes will be disseminated to the national and international scientific community and local territories to make the model usable by SMEs. The project proposal can have significant impacts. It benefits the international scientific community through further advancement of knowledge, bridging an existing gap by emphasising the need to approach the CE with a systemic and integrated governance vision. Moreover, the project provides a practical contribution to society and economy: SMEs will be able to enjoy support, also useful to attract both private funds, as required by the European regulation on taxonomy for sustainable activities, and public financing, as provided by Italy’s 2021 Budget Law and the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP).

Importo totale del finanziamento: € 204.878

Importo totale UniUrb: € 50.067

Periodo: 29/09/2023 – 28/09/2025

Struttura UniUrb di riferimento: Dipartimento di Economia, Società, Politica (DESP)

Referente UniUrb: Prof.ssa Federica Murmura

Codice progetto: 202274Z54B

CUP: H53D23002230006 

CON.CA - Controlling or Caring? Theories and practices of (neo)institutionalization

Breve descrizione, finalità e risultati attesi: The research aims to scrutinize the process of neo-institutionalization based on old and new techniques of medicalization of otherness and on psychiatric control. Therefore the project connects two different perspectives, Prison Studies and Disability Studies, strongly linked by extensive reflections on the concept of institutionalization. In the project perspective, neo-institutionalization is a set of practices that leads to segregation of vulnerability, considered as a defacto or de jure deprivation of liberty within an enclosed environment without the full consent of the individuals, but justified by reason of self- or other-harm prevention. The confinement into institutions is the last stage of a wider social and juridical process, consisting of formal and informal rules, discourses and practices. Therefore, the project specifically targets two vulnerable groups -in part overlapping- criminal offenders and persons with disability (including persons with psychiatric diseases and elder populations), both characterized by a deeply-rooted mechanism of exclusion from contemporary society. The research explores the hypothesis of an ongoing trans-institutionalization between the criminal justice and healthcare systems, since the instruments of coercive control acquired a supplementary “new” therapeutic role and vice versa, rehabilitative measures also have coercive functions. In this sense, psychiatry and mental health plays a key-role, because they require balancing “care” and “control”. The research specifically aim to: (a) Define the conceptual framework, reflecting on the process of (neo)institutionalization; (b) Explore the places of psychiatric segregation defined as “institutional archipelago”, through quantitative and qualitative methods, including direct observation; (c) Study the professional cultures implied in (neo)institutionalization; (d) Focus on medicine and psychiatry as instruments of care, control and incapacitation. The project involves the Garante Nazionale delle persone private della libertà (Italian NPM) as sub-unit to favor the access to the field of research and the dissemination strategy. The project also includes a supervisory committee, formed by mental health practitioners to favor a dialogical interpretation of the results and to discuss ethical issues. The topic of the project is even more challenging since the Covid-19 pandemic underlined the urgency of a public debate on institutionalization, especially on the operation of long-term care institutions, where contagion and deaths have been higher than in the outside world. For this reason, the Plan Next Generation Italy (Action 5 component 2) specifically addresses this issue underlining the need of investment on the so called social infrastructures with a community based approach, avoiding segregation. In this sense, the expected results of the project could have a high impact.

Importo totale del finanziamento: € 215.668

Importo totale UniUrb: € 47.811

Periodo: 15/10/2023 – 14/10/2025

Struttura UniUrb di riferimento: Dipartimento di Economia, Società, Politica (DESP)

Referente UniUrb: Prof.ssa Angela Genova

Codice progetto: 2022AJZTLS

CUP: H53D23005730006 

APPLICATE - Assessing Public Policy effectiveness in minimising Local Impacts with Climate-related AdapTation Expenditures

Breve descrizione, finalità e risultati attesi: APPLICATE will provide Italy with a framework for an advanced understanding and assessment of the socio-economic effects related to: 1) the impacts of changes in climatic conditions; 2) the increase in magnitude and frequency of weather extreme events and natural disasters; 3) the strength and effectiveness of preventive and adaptation measures designed at the local level. On this basis, APPLICATE will recommend a set of coherent policy solutions to incentivize and support locally-designed adaptation and prevention strategies, while ensuring an economically efficient, socially acceptable, and politically feasible public budget spending, in line with the main targets adopted by the Italian PNRR. APPLICATE will consider a selection of socio-economic impacts that are key targets of the sustainable transition strategy and the recovery measures adopted after the Covid-19 pandemic crisis: 1) the socio-economic effects across regions and municipalities of climate-related shocks and resilience capacity; 2) the transition mechanisms in the labour market related to the adaptation needs to changes in opportunities and competitiveness challenges; 3) the behavioural reactions of different agent groups (i.e. workers,entrepreneurs and politicians) to these shocks. To this end, APPLICATE will rely on cutting-edge empirical research tools (e.g. micro-econometric analysis for policy evaluation, sectoral system analysis, dynamic spatial econometrics) in order to develop scientific diagnostics aimed to formulate policy recommendations for environmentally effective, economically viable, politically feasible and socially desirable adaptation actions at the country and local level. Quantitative tools in APPLICATE will include the construction of a platform dedicated to share data and results collected under the project to allow full replication and updating of the informative basis. Three data frames will be delivered as milestones feeding the common dashboard Public and private Responses to Extreme eVENTs (PREVENT): 1) geo-localised weather extreme events related to change in climatic conditions at the lowest available geographical scale (data from ESWD and COPERNICUS); 2) place-based response actions from the private sector based on the adoption and diffusion of adaptation strategies (data from ASIA-Istat and AIDA-BvD) and technologies (data from PATSTAT); 3) response spending actions in the form of both expenditures and investments (data from SIOPE and OPENCUP). The research agenda of APPLICATE is ambitious but rooted in the goal of understanding concrete distributional repercussions in the Italian ecological transition pathway with a specific eye on adaptation actions, in the context of the European Green Deal and the Italian PNRR, focusing on improving ecosystems management and implementing preventive measures to face the increasing frequency of natural shocks in vulnerable areas and sectors.

Importo totale del finanziamento: € 276.579

Importo totale UniUrb: € 57.437

Periodo: 29/09/2023 – 28/09/2025

Struttura UniUrb di riferimento: Dipartimento di Economia, Società, Politica (DESP)

Referente UniUrb: Prof. Giovanni Marin

Codice progetto: 202252P92X

CUP: H53D23002170006 

TEC - Tax Evasion and Corruption: theoretical models and empirical studies. A quantitative-based approach for the Italian case.

Breve descrizione, finalità e risultati attesi: Tax Evasion and Corruption have several detrimental effects on economies. “Tax evasion aggravates the levy on honest taxpayers, subtracts resources from the public budget and introduces distortions between economic operators, altering the conditions of competition, with negative repercussions on the efficiency of the economic system as a whole” (PNRR 2020). “By creating business uncertainty, slowing processes, and imposing additional costs, [corruption] has a negative impact on economic growth” (Horizon Europe, SSH relevant topics 2021). The problem is particularly acute in Italy, a country in the top position for tax evasion in Europe (Relazione sull’economia non osservata e sull’evasione fiscale contributiva 2020) and the 17th out of 27 Members for corruption (Corruption Perceptions Index 2021). The remarkable attention paid by the European Union and Italy to corruption and tax evasion witnesses the challenge to find new channels to fight them. On one side, reducing tax evasion and corruption represents an economic target in response to Country Specific Recommendations 2019 on fiscal policy (CSR 1, PNRR) and on criminal justice (CSR 4, PNRR). The former is expected to be achieved through more targeted selections of taxpayers at a greater risk of evasion, made possible by the application of more advanced data analysis tools and the interoperability of databases. The latter focuses on fighting corruption by rationalizing and reviewing the rules of public controls of private activities, often the occasion of corruptive activities. On the other side, Horizon Europe research funding has put “Effective fight against corruption” between the relevant topics to be addressed in SSH. The pursuit of these ambitious goals can benefit from modern and validated tools. TEC aims to better understand the phenomenon of tax evasion and corruption with the general objective of outlying effective tools to combat them. TEC will address such questions by using an agent-based modeling and a quantitative approach in both complementary and strictly integrated perspectives, i.e. the economic modeling perspective, the dynamical analysis perspective, the empirical perspective and the experimental perspective. TEC will be realized by three research units (RU), University of Macerata (RU1), University of Calabria (RU2) and University of Urbino (RU3), working along three research lines both side by side and in coordination with each other, thus guaranteeing methodological interchange and interdisciplinarity. TEC has a valuable impact and potential applications on the scientific community, as well as in terms of economic-policy, pursuing policymakers tools to design more effective and adequate policies to fight corruption and tax evasion, and for society, by promoting behavioral changes needed for achieving a societal transformation towards more legality.

Importo totale del finanziamento: € 240.260

Importo totale UniUrb: € 39.360

Periodo: 29/09/2023 – 28/09/2025

Struttura UniUrb di riferimento: Dipartimento di Economia, Società, Politica (DESP)

Referente UniUrb: Prof. Fabio Tramontana

Codice progetto: 2022YMLS4T

CUP: H53D23002650006

EXplaining the determinants of the URBan-rural Interface: local governance, climate change and urban Adaptation (EXURBIA)

Breve descrizione, finalità e risultati attesi: The interface between the urban and rural environment is the subject of increasing interest as it is the location of intense trade-offs and conflicts among competing land uses. Despite the relevance of the issue, the comprehension of the drivers of urban expansion and its effects is still far from being exhausted. EXURBIA tackles some of the deficiencies of the literature. The first objective of EXURBIA is to investigate how urban expansion is affected by political competition and climate change at local level. The hypothesis behind the relationship between local governance political competition and its impact on the expansion of urban areas is the existence of a political land-use cycle that is linked to local elections. The second driver that we intend to analyse is the effect of climate change on urban expansion, and on the choice of land use change. The idea behind such an objective is that climate change has heterogenous effects across Italian areas on the relative profitability of urban and agricultural land use. In general, we expect that agricultural land use faces the highest damages from climate change. Hence, the higher the climate change damage in one area, the higher the urban expansion and especially sprawled expansion. The second objective of EXURBIA is aimed at estimating the spillover effects of urban expansion and its characteristics (i.e., compact vs. sprawled growth) on the intensity of agricultural activities in the neighbouring rural areas. The underlying hypothesis is grounded on classic spatial economic models based on agricultural land rent, which balances land cost, transportation costs, and profit. In this prospect, the general pattern that we expect to find is that urban expansion causes the relative displacement of intensive and extensive agricultural land use in the surroundings.To achieve its objectives, EXURBIA implements two broad sets of methods. The first refers to the creation of a novel (possibly covering 30 years) dataset integrating, for Italy, data concerning land use/land cover, political indicators, climate, and other socioeconomic covariates. Building upon this dataset, the second method refers to the econometric analysis based on spatial models and panel techniques, at both municipality and sub-municipality level. The project unfolds through a close collaboration among the two research units (UNIBO and UNIPD) and among the three project research associates. The composition of the project participants has been chosen to cover the entire spectrum of the skills and of the challenges that the project requires, namely model theoretical specification, spatial data acquisition and econometric estimation. Besides the scientific advancements, EXURBIA aims to deliver results and data that can have an impact beyond the borders of the project itself, such as inputs for urban planning and agricultural policies.

Importo totale del finanziamento: € 174.695

Importo totale UniUrb: € 111.359

Periodo: 18/10/2023 – 17/10/2025

Struttura UniUrb di riferimento: Dipartimento di Economia, Società, Politica (DESP)

Referente UniUrb: Dott. Matteo Zavalloni

Codice progetto: 2022S34259

CUP: H53D23005040001

“Digital INNOvation: an assessment of the relationship between DATA and other intangible assets and productivity (INNODATA)”

Breve descrizione, finalità e risultati attesi: INNODATA is a novel, high-profile research project on the linkage between innovative intangibles and productivity in the digital economy. INNNODATA revisits a proposal presented in response to the previous PRIN call, NOVINT. NOVINT was not considered eligible for funding but was highly evaluated (average scores: 86, 88, 99), with some minor concerns by three anonymous referees that we strived to address. The root causes of the widespread decline in productivity growth rate are complex and related to several factors: deindustrialization, technological transformations, rising market concentration, the widening gap between the frontier and laggard firms, and diminishing returns to R&D. The global pandemic and the ensuing recession are expected to exacerbate productivity slowdown, and firms might try to cope by innovating, i.e. investing in new technologies and products. The latest wave of digitalization has opened new avenues for firm innovation and requires novel investments beyond R&D. Artificial Intelligence, and other forms of automation mainly rely on data and other intangible assets. Investing in intangibles expands the firm productive capacity, yet evidence on whether this improves productivity is not unanimous. Also, national statistical agencies have yet to incorporate data investment and other forms of innovative intangibles fully, and their contribution to aggregate productivity growth might be missed or underestimated. Further, digital markets tend to be more concentrated, and a few global companies extract data value, raising usual concerns for social and consumer welfare, market efficiency, and the effectiveness of innovation policies. Data value concentration requires more complex measures than antitrust tools due to the relationship between data generators (consumers and workers) and data assets investors. Against this backdrop, the project aims to unpack the links between data and other intangible investments and the poor productivity performance of firms and countries in the EU.

The project will develop three main research activities:

1. Measurement of innovative intangibles and identification of metrics and sample

2. Conceptualization and measurement of data as intangible investment assets

3. Assessment of the role of innovative intangible and data investment in the firm, regional and industry performance for Italy (and a selection of EU countries).

First, we will build novel indicators of innovative intangibles at the firm level, collecting data from the web and estimating their linkage with productivity and other company dimensions. Second, we will develop a methodological background to measure data as intangible investments. Finally, we will assess the productivity impact of intangibles at the firm, region and country levels. Overall, our study will better understand aggregate productivity slowdown microeconomic sources and help explain whether it is mainly driven by a 'dematerialization' of innovative investment.

Importo totale del finanziamento: € 66.533

Importo totale UniUrb: € 58.399

Periodo: 28/09/2023 - 27/09/2023

Struttura UniUrb di riferimento: Dipartimento di Economia, Società, Politica (DESP)

Referente UniUrb: Prof. Francesco Venturini 

Codice Progetto: 2022YT5HAL

CUP: J53D23006900006