The article aims at enucleating the main issues of the current debate on the strategies by which to face the crisis in Italy and place solid basis for an eco-sustainable evolution of industrial systems. More specifically, it is underlined the relevance of the "industrial ecology" approach, the...

The paper aims to highlight the crucial role played by the manufacturing industry in thegrowth of the developed countries. This assumption is based, first of all, on the theoreticalcontributions of Petrus Verdoorn and Nicholas Kaldor, that, in the '50s and '60s, have identifiedlinks connecting...

This paper aims to give some remarks about the regulatory choices in Italy on the main network industries, former public monopolies (telecommunications, transport, water, energy). In particular, it focuses on the main legislative actions taken by the current Italian Government and provides some...

The paper describes the economic scenario after the financial crisis focusing on Italian manufacturing sector. In particular, it shows the good results reached by this sector in the last two months in terms of occupation and sales and it provides some predictions for the next future. Then it...

Private equity investments represent an important way of financing young and dynamic small and medium companies, in order to favour their growth through the provision of funds (expansion capital) to restructure them (turnaround capital) or to carry out a change in ownership, through IPO or the...

The Director of "l'industria" examines the main challenges that the review has to face in the next few years and the editorial lines that he intends to develop in order to face them. The first problem is connected with the "evaluation" process which has started in the Italian Universities and is...

The article investigates the current global crisis and provides some insights on possible future scenarios for the Italian industry. From recent Reports on the national production system, developed by Prometeia with Intesa-San Paolo and the Bank of Italy, it emerges a complex framework in which...

The paper aims to provide some remarks about the Italian economic scenario after the current economic crisis. At first, the Author relates and comments some data and information recently provided by the General Confederation of Italian Industries and other public institutions and research...

The article reports the main conclusions of the XXXIII Conference organized by "l'industria" together with the School of Industrial Economics of the University of Ferrara, concerning the future of the manufacturing industry in the midst of the most dramatic economic crisis since World War II....

Despite the declining share of eu gdp, the manufacturing industry is still contributing substantially to overall economic growth because of its higher productivity trend. In 2012, the eu Commission in a communication on industrial policy (com 2012,582 final), stressed the need to reverse this...