Organizers

Full Professor of Economic Policy at the Department of Economics and Business of the University of Catania, Italy, where she teaches Economic Policy and European Economic Policy; currently she is the dean of the degree course in Economics. She obtained the Laurea in Economics (1991) and the Doctorate (1995) at the University of Catania, and the Master at UCL - University College London (1993). In 2007 she was appointed as a member of the Ministerial Commission for the study and promotion of creativity in Italy. Her scientific interests concern the economic evaluation of public goods; issues in cultural economics, with particular reference to artists’ labour market; tourism economics, with particular attention to the role of cultural heritage in fostering tourism. She published several articles on these issues in international scientific journals and books.

Full professor of Economics and Management and founder and director of the Post-graduate Course in Economics and Management of Museum and Cultural Heritage, University of Florence. Since 2021 she is co-founder and director of the Doctoral School of Social Sciences, University of Florence. She was coordinator of the Doctoral Program 'Development Economics and Local Systems' (DELOS) University of Florence and Trento (until 35° Cycle). Her current research interests deal with: industrial districts, cultural clusters, cities of art, creative and cultural industries, innovation and creativity. She recently edited 'Rethinking culture and creativity in the digital transformation' with Routledge (Lazzeretti et al., forthcoming), 'The rise of algorithmic society and the strategic role of culture' with Franco Angeli (2021) forthcoming in the English version with Edward Elgar, ‘Rethinking Clusters. Towards a New Research Agenda for Cluster Research’ with Routledge (Lazzeretti et al., 2021) and ‘Creative Industries and Entrepreneurship: Paradigms in Transition from a Global Perspective’ with Edward Elgar (Lazzeretti and Vecco, 2018).

Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Chieti-Pescara "Gabriele d’Annunzio", Co-director of the Computational Human Behavior (CHuB) Lab of the Bruno Kessler Foundation of Trento, Faculty Associate at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University, and Senior Researcher at the metaLAB (at) Harvard. He is Special Adviser of the European Commissioner for Education and Culture, member of the scientific council of the Europeana Foundation, of the Advisory Council on Scientific Innovation of the Czech Republic and of the Advisory Council of Creative Georgia. He works internationally in the field of cultural-based local development and is the author of more than 200 essays published in peer reviewed journals and books at major international scientific publishers.

Associate Professor of Economics and Management and Professor of "Management of Cultural Enterprises" at the University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Department of Economics. Professor of "Business Economics and Management" at the University of Macerata, School of Specialization in Historical and Artistic Heritage. Member of the Board of the University of Naples "L’Orientale". Scientific advisor to Ente Pio Monte della Misericordia and to the Alessandro Scarlatti Association. Member of the Committee of the scientific journal "Economics of Culture", published by Il Mulino.For over twenty years he has been carrying out theoretical studies and conducting field research, on behalf of public and private institutions. He is the author of over one hundred scientific contributions on books and national and international journals. In 2018 he published the volume "Management per l'impresa culturale" in the series "Studi Superiori" of Carocci Editore.