Research Centers
Permanent Research Centers
ASK
Art, Science and Knowledge
Centre for Research on Management and Economics of Arts and Culture Institutions
(Study centre on the economics and management of the arts and culture)
The Research centre has been founded with the aim of carrying out researches in this field and promoting cultural planning and cultural institutions management activities.
The Centre is focused on activities and sectors significantly characterized by the relationship between Arts and Economics, and in particular:
- Economics, management, conservation and valorization of cultural goods and heritage, artistic and cultural traditions and productions.
- Economics, management and social promotion of cultural industries, such as publishing, media, and the film industry.
- Economics, management and valorization of leisure/entertainment and tourism activities.
- Urban and territorial valorization (Art cities).
BAFFI CAREFIN
Centre for Applied Research on International Markets, Banking, Finance and Regulation
From 1 January 2015, the CAREFIN and Paolo Baffi Centre on International Markets, Money and Regulation have integrated their activities in a new research centre. The merger will allow the new BAFFI CAREFIN Centre to continue to produce applied
multi-disciplinary research on banking,
finance, central banking and monetary
policy and regulation in national and international markets.
BIDSA
Bocconi Institute for Data Science and Analytics
The Centre, established in 2016, aims at promoting and conducting both theoretical and applied research involving modeling, management and analysis of large-scale datasets. Moreover, it supports the training of students and junior researchers in fields where the use of advanced statistical, mathematical and computational methodologies is essentialCERGAS
Centre for Research on Health and Social Care Management (Institutional stuctures; management of public and private companies providing healthcare and social services)
Established in 1978 with the aim to develop research studies about the healthcare sector, the centre promote research activities closely integrated with the basic research developed within the two programs of Business Administration and Management and Economics and Management of Public Administration and International Institutions of Università Bocconi.
The main areas of study and research are: comparisons among healthcare systems and analyses of public health policy; implementation of economic methods in the evaluation of healthcare performance; introducing the managerial logic in healthcare organizations; organizational models and management systems for public and private healthcare firms; impacts on the industrial sector and correlated services (pharmaceuticals and biomedical technologies) and on the social welfare sector.
The research activity of CERGAS is strictly correlated with the business education programs for the healthcare sector developed by the Faculty of the Public Administration Division of SDA Bocconi School of Management.
DONDENA
Carlo F. Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy
(Interdisciplinary research on social cohesion, demography, life course dynamics and public policy)
The Centre, established in 2006, aims at promoting, coordinating and conducting interdisciplinary research activities on
social dynamics, with an emphasis on medium- and long-term processes and on comparative analysis.
The main areas of interest of the Centre are:
- demography and the life course, e.g., fertility and family dynamics, intergenerational relationships and ageing, transitions to adulthood, migration, lifelong learning, medium- and long-range forecasting, labour market and social mobility;
- development and social cohesion, e.g., inequality, social norms and economic development, polarization, integration of migrants and second generations;
- welfare state and public policies, e.g. social policies in comparative perspective, Europeanisation and regional issues;
- data collection and harmonisation and creation of a data archive.
GREEN
(the Center brings together and expands the activities of CERTet and IEFE)
Centre for Geography, Resources, Environment, Energy and Networks
The Centre was established as a result of the merger between CERTeT and IEFE. GREEN aims to conduct and promote research projects at the intersection of the spatial of socio-economic phenomena and of climate change, transportation, environmental policy and energy markets.
The main areas of research are:
- Economic geography and local governance Spatial analysis of socio-economic phenomena (e.g. economic activities, local development, housing) and local public policy
- Environment and
climate change
Environmental analysis and policy at global, local and firm level - Networks and
public utilities
Economic analysis of specific sectors such as transportation, energy markets, telecoms, water and sanitation, solid waste management, geopolitics of international networks - Circular Green
and ESG Finance
Analysis of the relation between Sustainability and Finance, currently leveraged around the grounds of the relationship between Circular Economy (CE) and Finance – Circular Finance –, Green Finance and Transition/ESG Finance.
The research approach is highly multidisciplinary and oriented towards addressing policy-relevant issues at local and global scale.
ICRIOS
The Invernizzi Center for Research on Innovation, Organization, Strategy and Entrepreneurship
ICRIOS was founded to be a reference point for cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary and collaborative research on innovation, organization and strategy, with the explicit objective to influence
in a significant way both the academic
debate and management practice.
The Centre promotes collaboration and knowledge sharing at any stage of the research process, especially among scholars in diverse and complementary fields, based across nations, and working in different research traditions.
ICRIOS fellows are selected among recognized experts in their field of study, and their expertise and interest span across several divisions of the Academy of Management.
IGIER
Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research
(Economics and economic policy)
Part of the Institute of Economics, it operates jointly with two international bodies, the US-based NBER, National Bureau of Economic Research, and the UK-based CEPR, Centre for Economic Policy Research.
The Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research was established in 1990, in order to seek to reverse the brain drain affecting European economic research.
The aim of IGIER is to attract some of the best
European young economists normally working abroad (in the US, especially), and to supply them with a research environment similar to those prevalent in American universities, where they can work on their research projects while interacting with Italian researchers.
Research Insitute
IEP@BU
Institute for European Policymaking @ Bocconi University
AGRILab
Romeo ed Enrica Invernizzi Agribusiness Reseach Initiative
ARTLAB
Artificial Intelligence Lab
BLEST
Bocconi Lab for European Studies
Covid Crisis Lab
Laboratory for Coronavirus Crisis Research
FEL
Financial Education Lab
LEAP
Laboratory for Effective Anti-poverty Policies
Romeo ed Enrica Invernizzi Foundation
SUR LAB
Sustainable Urban Regeneration Lab
Named Professorships and Chairs
Other Organizations and Agencies
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