The digital and green transitions increasingly depend on critical raw materials (CRMs) like cobalt, lithium and rare earths, vital for energy storage, renewables...

Today, innovation strategies must go beyond the search for competitive advantage and embed sustainability into the firm’s strategic processes. A key challenge for manufacturing...

This paper revisits debates on France’s industrialisation, challenging the view of it as unusually slow. Focusing on the spread of steam power across departments from 1840 to 1911, it explores...

This research investigates the gender-specific effects of Italy’s 2011–2012 Fornero Pension Reform. While prior studies focused on overall economic impacts, little is known about how...

The trade-offs between organic and conventional farming methods involve their respective effects on food security, health, environmental sustainability, and economic outcomes.

In a rapidly evolving and dynamic research area, where digital currencies are reshaping the global financial system, this paper dares to push the boundaries by tackling a question that has yet to be fully explored....

A classical cellular automaton consists of a grid of cells whose states update according to a fixed local rule. In this talk, this classical framework is generalized by incorporating uncertainty in the state of each cell....

Early childhood care and education (ECEC) is key to increasing female labour-market participation and supports children's social and cognitive development—especially for those from disadvantaged or migrant backgrounds....