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In Italy, the " years of lead " represent a controversial past: this period of recent history is often mobilized in various contexts and its interpretations divide and oppose different actors. This thesis analyses the public uses of history, from the 1970s until today, and shows how a dominant frame of interpretation of past events has been set. Various empirical materials (interviews, autobiographies, archives, parliamentary debates) allowed to study different areas where narrations of past events have been constructed and controversies are taking place. Differently from works that are explaining recurrent controversies about the past by its "exceptional" or "traumatic" character, this research is focusing on the present. It analyses the actors that are intervening in public debates about the past and on their specific issues: judges, victims, former activists, politicians. It sheds light on how the past is continuously constructed and reconstructed in and by contemporary mobilizations and controversies. Thus, this work associates the study of actors' trajectories and sociopolitical contexts to explain the posterior lives of the 1970s in Italy. ; Les " années de plomb " en Italie demeurent un passé qui est souvent mobilisée dans des contextes très divers et dont l'interprétation divise et oppose de nombreux acteurs. Cette thèse analyse les usages de ce passé, des années 1970 jusqu'à nos jours, et montre comment s'est élaboré et imposé en Italie un cadre interprétatif dominant des événements de la période. A partir de matériaux empiriques variés (entretiens, autobiographies, archives, débats parlementaires), elle étudie les multiples arènes où s'élaborent les mises en récit des événements passés et les controverses qui marquent leur interprétation. A la différence des travaux qui mettent en avant le caractère " exceptionnel " ou " traumatisant " d'un passé pour rendre compte de sa récurrence dans les débats postérieurs, ce travail déplace la focale du passé au présent. Il porte l'attention sur les acteurs qui interviennent dans les débats sur le passé et sur les enjeux qui leur sont propres : magistrats, victimes, anciens militants, hommes politiques. Il montre comment le passé est construit et reconstruit sans cesse dans et par ces différentes mobilisations et controverses qui se déroulent dans des conjonctures éloignées. C'est donc dans la rencontre entre trajectoire d'acteurs (et groupes d'acteurs) et contextes sociopolitiques que l'on peut saisir et expliquer les vies ultérieures des années 1970 en Italie.

In Italy, the " years of lead " represent a controversial past: this period of recent history is often mobilized in various contexts and its interpretations divide and oppose different actors. This thesis analyses the public uses of history, from the 1970s until today, and shows how a dominant frame of interpretation of past events has been set. Various empirical materials (interviews, autobiographies, archives, parliamentary debates) allowed to study different areas where narrations of past events have been constructed and controversies are taking place. Differently from works that are explaining recurrent controversies about the past by its "exceptional" or "traumatic" character, this research is focusing on the present. It analyses the actors that are intervening in public debates about the past and on their specific issues: judges, victims, former activists, politicians. It sheds light on how the past is continuously constructed and reconstructed in and by contemporary mobilizations and controversies. Thus, this work associates the study of actors' trajectories and sociopolitical contexts to explain the posterior lives of the 1970s in Italy. ; Les " années de plomb " en Italie demeurent un passé qui est souvent mobilisée dans des contextes très divers et dont l'interprétation divise et oppose de nombreux acteurs. Cette thèse analyse les usages de ce passé, des années 1970 jusqu'à nos jours, et montre comment s'est élaboré et imposé en Italie un cadre interprétatif dominant des événements de la période. A partir de matériaux empiriques variés (entretiens, autobiographies, archives, débats parlementaires), elle étudie les multiples arènes où s'élaborent les mises en récit des événements passés et les controverses qui marquent leur interprétation. A la différence des travaux qui mettent en avant le caractère " exceptionnel " ou " traumatisant " d'un passé pour rendre compte de sa récurrence dans les débats postérieurs, ce travail déplace la focale du passé au présent. Il porte l'attention sur les acteurs qui ...

In Italy, the " years of lead " represent a controversial past: this period of recent history is often mobilized in various contexts and its interpretations divide and oppose different actors. This thesis analyses the public uses of history, from the 1970s until today, and shows how a dominant frame of interpretation of past events has been set. Various empirical materials (interviews, autobiographies, archives, parliamentary debates) allowed to study different areas where narrations of past events have been constructed and controversies are taking place. Differently from works that are explaining recurrent controversies about the past by its "exceptional" or "traumatic" character, this research is focusing on the present. It analyses the actors that are intervening in public debates about the past and on their specific issues: judges, victims, former activists, politicians. It sheds light on how the past is continuously constructed and reconstructed in and by contemporary mobilizations and controversies. Thus, this work associates the study of actors' trajectories and sociopolitical contexts to explain the posterior lives of the 1970s in Italy. ; Les " années de plomb " en Italie demeurent un passé qui est souvent mobilisée dans des contextes très divers et dont l'interprétation divise et oppose de nombreux acteurs. Cette thèse analyse les usages de ce passé, des années 1970 jusqu'à nos jours, et montre comment s'est élaboré et imposé en Italie un cadre interprétatif dominant des événements de la période. A partir de matériaux empiriques variés (entretiens, autobiographies, archives, débats parlementaires), elle étudie les multiples arènes où s'élaborent les mises en récit des événements passés et les controverses qui marquent leur interprétation. A la différence des travaux qui mettent en avant le caractère " exceptionnel " ou " traumatisant " d'un passé pour rendre compte de sa récurrence dans les débats postérieurs, ce travail déplace la focale du passé au présent. Il porte l'attention sur les acteurs qui ...

The University and the Economy provides an in-depth exploration of the many ways in which universities contribute to economic development and growth. By providing readers with theoretical tools and evidence to explain the means by which university activities impact the economic system, the book offers a robust analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of specific university systems. In offering a solid foundation of conceptual and statistical knowledge, this book supports the current debate on the role of the university in the contemporary economy. It also offers insights to enhance understanding of why some university systems are not contributing to their economies as well as others. The book adopts an economic perspective, which allows the actions of universities, as well as the individuals who study and work within them, to be analysed in the context of economic models of behaviour. From this perspective, it explains the organization, governance and funding of universities' activities and explores how these could be structured to improve their efficiency and effectiveness. Academics, policymakers, managers and professionals working in universities will find a wealth of valuable information in this book. It will also be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students of science and technology policy, higher education economics and the economics and management of innovation

Within the scholarship on internationalisation in higher education, transnational networks are seldom mentioned and even less studied. However, recent EU policy initiatives have attempted to enhance this form of internationalisation in order to tackle issues of employability, skills and competences and innovative curriculum development. Within European transnational networks, higher education institutions are posited to play a central role, as they are considered engines of socio-economic development in the so-called Knowledge Economy. To explore empirically the significance of higher education institutions in such networks, this article presents an analysis of 991 European networks promoting educational innovation within the Erasmus+ programme between 2014 and 2018. We analyse the role of higher education institutions by network size, governance, membership, and associated types of innovation. Our findings confirm expectations about the pivotal role of higher education institutions. However, expectations should be significantly nuanced, as higher education institutions tend to lead comparatively small networks. Also, higher education institutions tend to favour general innovative themes rather than specialised topics. Our contribution is threefold. First, it increases our understanding of higher education institutions' capacity to engage with multi-level, multi-actor, multi-country innovation networks. Second, it sheds light on how higher education institutions have engaged with different priorities in EU's modernisation agenda. Finally, our paper extends the scholarship on internationalisation in higher education by looking at transnational networks in teaching and learning as an emerging phenomenon.

This chapter shows that implementing similar policies supporting the transfer of knowledge from public research to industry in countries with different innovation systems requires different sets of complementary policies. Drawing on six case studies, which range from high- (UK, Germany, Republic of Korea) to middle-income countries (China, Brazil, South Africa), this chapter describes the process of policy convergence and why countries might differ substantially in their approach. In high-income countries with mature national innovation systems, the adoption of Bayh-Dole-inspired legislation meant that research expected to produce patents was incentivized and preferred over other types of commercialization. The policy challenge here is to ensure all channels of knowledge transfer are appropriately nurtured. In middle-income economies, where knowledge ecosystems were less mature, the Bayh-Dole legislation resulted in a process of institutional reform, such as incentives to researchers, changing the legal structure of the university incomes and the use of public research institutes. Thus, for knowledge transfer policies to be successful, it is crucial to identify the appropriate complementary measures.

The paper studies the potential impact on business travel of the new high-speed railway line project, called AlpTransit, which will link Lugano, the small economic hub of the southern part of Switzerland, with Zurich, one of the major Swiss economic centres, situated north of the Alps. Thanks to this infrastructure, travel time between the two cities will decrease considerably from about three hours to less than two hours by the end of 2020.
The question that we pose in this paper is what impact high-speed trains could have, in the short to medium term, on business travel between the two hubs (ex-ante evaluation). Indeed, given the travel time, firms could increase their business-to-business one-day trips, boosting face-to-face interactions within and among enterprises. Our curiosity more specifically regards the potential impact of the change in travel time on the propensity to travel of employees with different functions in various types of firms.
An on-line survey was conducted among firms located in Ticino, the Swiss Canton that includes Lugano. The data are analysed using four ordered logit models, one for each employee category (CEO, administrative staff, sales personnel, specialists), since hierarchical position and professional status influence business travel characteristics. Results show that internal firm characteristics, such as sector, frequency and destination of current business travels significantly influence the propensity to travel to Zurich more often thanks to AlpTransit.

AbstractUniversities can obtain economic rewards not only by commercializing intellectual property embedded in patents, but also by sharing open access knowledge.

Recent developments in innovation theory and policy have led policy makers to assign particular importance to supporting networks of cooperation among heterogeneous economic actors, especially in production systems composed of small and medium enterprises. Such innovative policies call for parallel innovations in policy analysis, monitoring and assessment. Our analysis of a policy experiment aimed at supporting innovation networks in the Italian region of Tuscany intends to address some issues connected with the design, monitoring and evaluation of such interventions. Combining tools from ethnographic research and social networks analysis, the article explores the structural elements of the policy programme, its macroscopic impact on the regional innovation system and the success of individual networks in attaining their specific objectives.This innovative approach allows us to derive some general methodological suggestions for the design and evaluation of similar programmes.