The Regional Development (REGI) Committee of the European Parliament published a new study authored by CSIL that looks at the impact of Artificial Intelligence on Cohesion Policy, its role within and between urban areas. It explores the state of available knowledge regarding the role of AI within urban development, its potential advantages and risks, and the foreseeable implications for socio-economic and territorial cohesion.
Read the research4Committee blog post
Full study: Research for REGI Committee - Artificial Intelligence and Urban Development
Over the past year, CSIL has worked with Prognos, Digital Science, and various country experts to screen and assess all available smart specialisation strategies in the EU. The project's final report "Prioritisation in Smart Specialisation in the EU", will be presented on Thursday 2 September 2021. The report also includes the newly developed "S3 Scoreboard". The authors will discuss the study's findings and their implications for EU policy together with EU officers and academics.
To attend, please register on the European Commission's website.
We are looking for a new colleague who will contribute to the management of public tenders, international contracts, and EU-funded projects and take responsibility for the smooth running of administrative, financial, and legal matters.
Contract type: part-time (20 hours a week)
Main location: Milan
Deadline: 10 September 2021.
The ideal candidate is responsible, systematic, and attentive. This person will be expected to refine our projects' finance and administrative practices and recurring workflows proactively. The officer will be working mainly under the guidance of the Managing Director and will liaise with team leaders in project-related administrative matters.
Please, email your CV and cover letter to careers@csilmilano.com or submit them using our website form.
Alessandra Caputo, Emanuela Sirtori and Domenico Scalera authored a working paper that aims at identifying geographical patterns of Biopharma transformation trends in the EU over the period 2000-2016 through an analysis of cross-regional and cross-sectoral linkages. To this purpose, information on co-patenting, mergers and acquisitions, and joint ventures and alliances is used to carry out a network analysis at the region level. Results show an increasing involvement of European regions in cross-sectoral Biopharma operations. However, while the network displays a tendency to enlarge toward the East (Poland) and West (Spain), a significant reduction in the activity of peripheral nodes in the Southern and Northern borders of the network is observed. More recently, the overall interconnectedness of the network slightly decreases; the network becomes sparser, showing a propensity toward regionalisation of cross-sectoral linkages. Finally, by exploiting information on the location of companies and inventors involved in cross-sectoral operations, the investigation allows pinpointing regional communities and their evolution throughout the years.
Read the full working paper or read it on RePEc.
CSIL organised a workshop to present the preliminary findings of the ongoing study “Data in the EU textile ecosystem and its competitiveness”, which we are carrying out for the European Commission (Directorate-General Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship & SMEs, Directorate G: Tourism and proximity, GROW.G.1 Unit: Tourism, Textiles).
The topics of sustainability and circular economy, innovation and skills needs, international competitiveness, the strategic and economic relevance of the EU textile ecosystem were discussed together with stakeholders from the textiles, clothing, leather and fur, footwear, and fashion industries.
For more information on the project, please contact Emanuela Sirtori.
Emanuela Sirtori and Matteo Pedralli have presented to EBN members the preliminary results of the impacts achieved by the Business & Innovation Centres community in 2020. Even in a challenging period due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the EU BICs mobilised 1.3 billion euros to support potential entrepreneurs, start-ups and SMEs.
Full results will be included in the forthcoming EU|BIC Impact & Activity report published by the EBN.
CSIL is Associate Member of EBN since 2019.
CSIL is part of the FCC worldwide community aiming to solidify the vision of a circular post-LHC particle-collider research infrastructure at CERN. The aim of the 2021 conference is to discuss the upcoming study phase that should demonstrate the feasibility of the FCC by the end of 2025.
CSIL is coordinating the WP “Impact and sustainability” of the FCC Innovation study.
Emanuela Sirtori moderated the session on the socio-economic impact assessment.
Francesco Giffoni participated by delivering a presentation on the scientific training impact of CERN for the young generation of researchers.
FCCIS – The Future Circular Collider Innovation Study. This INFRADEV Research and Innovation Action project receives funding from the European Union’s H2020 Framework Programme under grant agreement no. 951754.
CSIL's market research unit has just issued a report on the European market for Healthcare Lighting, which considers lighting mainly for two healthcare macro segments and its main products: hospitals (public and private) and dental studies (usually private).
The report relies on desk analysis, such as statistical data collection and company database analysis, and field analysis, carried on through 20 interviews with manufacturers and experts operating in the healthcare lighting industry.
Some of the healthcare lighting market main drivers identified are:
Data highlight that the European market of healthcare lighting is made by around 100 manufacturers, including approximately two clusters: 40 manufacturers of overall lighting fixtures, 70 specialists in healthcare/hospital equipment for which lighting is usually just a small share of their turnover.
The report also provides an analysis of the competitive system by country or groups of countries for the main players of the sector, with sales data, market share and short company profiles.
See the dedicated page, or contact us for more information.
If you are interested in market research in the healthcare sector, you may also consult The world market for safety syringes, published by CSIL earlier this year.
Megatrends are long-term, ubiquitous, global and robust transformations influencing the developments of business, environment, economy, society, cultures and citizens' lives on a local and global scale. There is important grey literature focusing on these megatrends and their impacts. However, this analysis is often not territorialized, despite the gradient of consequences that megatrends might have at the regional level.
In a CSIL working paper, Louis Colnot and Emanuela Sirtori propose a methodological approach combining qualitative insights (including foresight scenarios) and quantitative data to regionalize the impacts of a series of megatrends and types of impacts. This approach is then applied to a sample of megatrends and types of impacts at the EU level.
Findings suggest that the megatrends' impacts are not place-neutral in the EU context and that patterns of the most/least affected regions depend on the individual megatrend. Indeed, different patterns can be observed (e.g., North/South, East/West, urban/non-urban, quasi-homogeneous impacts), often in opposite directions for different megatrends. Moreover, the regional level of development cannot be used as a reliable predictor of the impacts, as the correlation may be positive, negative or even inexistent depending on the megatrend.
Read the full working paper or view it on REPEC.
The XIX Milan European Economy Workshop “State-Owned Enterprises and Innovation in Public Services in a Post-Pandemic World” will take place on 30 June 2021 from 2 pm to 6 pm (CET) in a fully virtual mode.
The workshop, organised by the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods, of the University of Milan in collaboration with CIRIEC International, will focus on the themes of innovation in public services and the role of public enterprises in a global post-pandemic scenario.
Read the programme and confirm your participation by email to meew@unimi.it.