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Corporate culture

curated by Antonio Calabrò

Industry at its finest gives rise to culture,
forging original combinations of value and values, profitability and social relations
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Archive 2015

Medtec graduates its first medical engineers, Milan relaunches the soft power of polytechnic culture
Medical engineers have a unique combination of different skills. They can bridge the gap between anatomy and sophisticated technological machinery, paying close attention to health and using all digital tools ...
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Raphael’s young scribe and the need for critical culture in the face of the...
A rushing wind ruffles his hair.  But it does not disturb his concentration.  He stands leaning against the wall with his legs crossed to improve his balance.  He writes with ...
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Skilled labour, higher wages and innovation: the solutions to prevent our young people from...
Italy is ageing. We are having fewer and fewer children. And year by year, increasingly more of our young are leaving, especially those with high qualifications and a drive to ...
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Milan thrives on market and innovation but it also needs good policy
‘In a city, it is not the seven or seventy-seven wonders that you enjoy, but the answers it provides to your questions,’ wrote Italo Calvino in The Invisible Cities, considered ...
Leggi Milan thrives on market and innovation but it also needs good policy
Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate warning: never underestimate the mafia, which has its eye on public...
‘The truth is a losing currency,’ writes Beatrice Monroy in her intense and poignant novel, which has just been published by Zolfo. The novel tells the story of the desperation ...
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The soft power of Italian companies: culture and quality to relaunch industrial areas and...
There is a real soft power that underlies the competitive capacity of the Italian industry on international markets. It is shaped by the quality, beauty and functionality of our products; ...
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Moravia, the factory and the tale of a missing film. Unresolved conflicts between industry...
In a discussion about factories, work, creativity, technology, fatigue, conflict, production routines and transformation, we must come to terms with an industrial civilisation marked by complex tensions that cannot be ...
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“Thinking hands” keeping the Italian industry afloat, combining design with craftsmanship and artificial intelligence
“It was a dark and stormy night.” This is the opening line of an imaginary novel that is much more famous than the opening pages of many real novels.  It ...
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Publishing and reading good books fosters an “ecology of words” that strengthens civic values...
Does erasing words from books emphasise their importance and essentiality? Does it emphasise the centrality of the written word? The answer is, of course, yes — provided that the “erasure” ...
Leggi Publishing and reading good books fosters an “ecology of words” that strengthens civic values...
Rebuilding trust and investing in culture and the future, Mattarella’s words on the fiftieth...
Rebuilding trust. And to restore hope, especially to the young people, many, too many of whom leave Italy in search of better working and living conditions. In times of crisis, ...
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Words to talk about creativity, culture and industry and to increase the value of...
“Italy must do Italy well”, the Symbola Foundation has long argued. And that means making the most its original ability to combine artistic creativity and economic enterprise, a taste for ...
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Sicily, the California of Europe? Beyond the dream, investment, good governance and culture are...
Sicily as the “California of Europe”. And Palermo as an international centre of excellence for biotechnology and biomedical research, capable of "attracting young and experienced researchers from all over the ...
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The shadows of Milan beyond the “week”. And the history of Assolombarda from dynamism...
The splendour of Milan is intensified on the occasion of certain anniversaries, including fashion, interior design, culture and international glamour. Fashion Week, for example, between February and March and then ...
Leggi The shadows of Milan beyond the “week”. And the history of Assolombarda from dynamism...
Now it is Europe’s turn to attract scientists and young people seeking better research...
"Tariffs are redrawing the map of world trade", writes Il Sole24Ore (6 April), trying to understand not only the extent of the general shock caused by the decisions of Donald ...
Leggi Now it is Europe’s turn to attract scientists and young people seeking better research...
“Culture is bread”, the enlightenment of books to reflect on social and civic development
"Bread and culture" was the slogan of one of Milan's most popular mayors, Antonio Greppi, a socialist, which gave a strategic sense to the commitment to the rebirth of the ...
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