CERMES - MANAGEMENT, ECONOMICS AND LOCAL DEVELOPMENT
CERMES Director: Manlio Del Giudice
The aim of CERMES is to identify and analyze the best practices on a national and international scale, in the field of entrepreneurship, management and development of territorial innovation, applying them to local contexts. The main purpose of Center is to develop tools and models that can help guide the actions of companies, institutions and public bodies, associations and foundations of the third sector, pursuing the 'ecosystem for innovation' logic.
CERMES promotes, organizes, develops and manages, primarily but not exclusively, study and research activities related to the Macro Area of Business and Management Sciences (Area 13 - Economics and Statistics), including all related and/or instrumental activities, establishing relations with public and private organizations as a scientific interlocutor of excellence, able to design and develop basic or applied research programs, aimed at verifying the conditions of an economy of knowledge declined through technological innovation, circular economy, technological forecasting, knowledge transfer.
Research areas
The main purpose of the CERMES centre is to promote, organize and assist basic and applied research within the academic field, with particular reference to the field of economics/business (Area 13 - Economics and Statistics). The main areas of Study and Research of the Centre are the following:
- Innovation management;
- Entrepreneurship;
- Circular economy;
- Knowledge management, sharing and transfer;
- Intangible resources, Intellectual Capital, SIA;
- Marketing and corporate and institutional communication;
- Technology transfer and spin off (for enterprises and research);
- Technological management and forecasting, in the management and entrepreneurship field;
- Management of industrial and agro-food biotechnologies;
- Development and economy of local systems;
- Valorization of the local economic and cultural system (agribusiness, tourism, culture, etc.)
- Business accelerators, incubators and business planning;
- Public administration management;
- Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Ethics;
- Accounting, Evaluation and Quantitative Business Methodologies;
- Cross cultural management;
- Family business studies;
- Strategic management;
- Banking and Finance.