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TAV 13.01Furniture plant, lines 2 and 3. Japan.TAV 13.01Furniture plant, lines 2 and 3. Japan.Research
Some firms produce part of the institutional order they work in.
Corporate statecraft studies how. We work from documents rather than from what firms say they intended: deeds, by-laws, minutes, and clauses still in force after their authors have left.
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All notes →2026.10.02
Public Purpose and Founder Control at Anthropic
Anthropic’s planned listing would let its founders and a mission trust choose every director. That may protect the public mission from shareholders; it also leaves open who holds the company to account.
2026.09.17
What Anthropic’s Antitrust Waiver Says About the Law and Economics of AI
Anthropic asks Washington for permission to coordinate on AI safety. Permission to coordinate does not settle who decides which risks the public accepts.
2026.09.02
What Bending Spoons’ IPO Means for the EU Inc.
Bending Spoons went public on Nasdaq as an Italian S.p.A. A European company form should be designed to carry firms like it through a listing too.
2026.03.24
The Political Nature of the Firm: When Businesses Produce Institutional Order
In Palo Alto and Pittsburgh, private decisions helped shape public institutions.
2026.01.20
Reconsidering campanilismo: a Stanford lesson for Italy
From bell towers to steeples of excellence: how local universities can turn regional identity into global strength.
2025.10.08
Italy’s future: a neo-industrial renaissance in the making?
With ageing industries and the advance of AI, regions from Belluno to Marche are looking for a new industrial strategy.
Program · 2014–2024
The program →Ten years inside Italian firms. Between 2014 and 2024 the Italia Innovation Program brought selected classes of students from eleven universities into Italian plants. Each edition moved across several locations.
Fifty-two firms presented their cases on site. The studio’s method comes from those visits.
TAV 16.01Pasta Mancini, Monte San Pietrangeli · Italia Innovation Program firm case.Stefano Boeri ArchitettiAbout the studio
italiainnovation is a research studio. It develops a method, the juridical analysis of the economy, and applies it in the field. Two researchers direct the studio and write everything it publishes.
The directors →- Editions
- 7
- Firm cases
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- Alumni
- 250
- Faculty and guests
- 69