Internal Seminars

"Railways and Literacy in 19th Century Italy" by Georgios Tsiachtsiras

10

dec 2025

12:30

This paper examines how railroad expansion shaped literacy development in post-unification Italy between 1881 and 1911. Using newly digitized district-level data...

"Material saving technologies" by Paolo Castelnovo

24

nov 2025

13:15

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

"Sustainable Innovation Strategies and Firm Performance: Evidence from the Italian Food Industry" by Francesco Maria Gentile (joint with Carmine Garzia, Patrizia Gazzola and Edoardo Slerca)

02

july 2025

12:30

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...

"Networks of Change: Infrastructure and the Spread of Steam Power in 19th century France" by Sara Savini (joint with Charlotte Le Chapelain and Claude Diebolt)

02

july 2025

13:00

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...

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