Cover story · Latest field note
From the Journal →
TAV 13.01Furniture plant, lines 2 and 3. Japan.TAV 13.01Furniture plant, lines 2 and 3. Japan.Research
Some firms do not merely operate inside an institutional order. They produce one.
Corporate statecraft studies that production. The evidence is the documented instrument, not the stated intention: the deed, the by-law, the minute, the clause still in force after its author has gone.
Journal
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 shield the public mission from shareholders, and 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. Coordination is not authority: someone must still decide which risks the public accepts.
2026.09.02
What Bending Spoons’ IPO Means for the EU Inc.
Europe wants a better corporate form. It needs one that works when a company goes public, too.
2026.03.24
The Political Nature of the Firm: When Businesses Produce Institutional Order
A company’s influence rarely stops at its gates. 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?
Amid ageing industries and the advance of AI, Italian regions from Belluno to Marche are sketching a new industrial blueprint. Can they pull it off?
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 ArchitettiFL 00 · the filmThe 2024 edition — six regions, more than ten cities, one grand tour▶ Watch the film
About the studio
italiainnovation is a studio for the advancement of juridical and economic thought. It develops a method — the juridical analysis of the economy — and applies it in the field. Two researchers direct the studio and are the authors of everything it publishes.
The directors →- Editions
- 7
- Firm cases
- 52
- Alumni
- 250
- Faculty and guests
- 69