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Program · 2014–2024

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.

Editions
7
Firm cases
52
Alumni
250
Faculty and guests
69
Film of the 2024 program editionFL 00Film of the 2024 program edition.
FL 00 · the film that precedes the register

The 2024 edition — six regions, more than ten cities, one grand tour

The last program edition was filmed. It is numbered FL 00 because it predates the film series and its rules; it is kept as the reference those rules were developed from.

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Ten years, 2014–2024

The studio did not begin with a method. It began with a teaching program. Between 2013 and 2014 a coalition of scholars and firms was assembled from a bench at the University of Padova law school, and for ten years the Italia Innovation Program brought selected classes into Italian plants — fifty-two firms, six sectors, sixty-nine faculty and guests, two hundred and fifty alumni. The instruments the studio now studies were first examined on those visits.

Origin
University of Padova, law school · 2013
First edition
2014
Editions
Seven · 2014–2019 and 2024
Universities
Harvard · MIT · Yale · Berkeley · Stanford · LSE · Oxford · Sciences Po · Bocconi · HKUST · NUS

Fifty-two firms

Presented by the firms, at their plants
Italia Innovation Program · 2014–202452 firm cases · select a sector
Mercator projection; each dot is a firm that presented its case to a program class, at its comune.

What we kept from those years

Carried forward
WhatThenNow
Fifty-two firm casesPresented by the firms at their plantsThe cases the studio studies
The site visitA class inside a plant, during an editionThe field note, numbered with the visit
The public eventResearch presented to a local audienceThe internal seminar that precedes a paper
Two hundred and fifty alumniSelected from eleven universitiesThe research-fellow call, from 2027

Our own projects

Run by the studio on its own account
IN 01Disruptive Quality Editorial
IN 02The Art of Excellent Products Book · HarperCollins / La Nave di Teseo, 2022
IN 03illy Foundry Corporate innovation
IN 05California Innovation Program Experiential learning
IN 06West Coast Panettone Product development
IN 07The Conversational Company Product development
IN 08De-Construct Business development
IN 09Criollo Society Marketing

Public talks

2016–2024
2024.07.11 · ValdagnoValdagno, città post industriale
2024.07.03 · with Romano ProdiItaly, a view from the foothills
2023.04.15Where do we go from here?
2020.06.15Are we headed toward a regionalized globalization?
2019.06.26Imprese globali e comunità locali
2019.01.15 · ValdagnoIl futuro dell’economia tessile
2016.05.21Google I/O Hackathon