August 2016, Year VIII, n. 8
Roberto Cingolani
The dream man
Telos: You are the Scientific Director of the Italian Institute of Technology. Please tell what you do at the Institute.
Roberto Cingolani: The Scientific Director is institutionally responsible for implementing the strategies and operative management of the Institute. The job involves drafting the scientific plan, coordinating our scientific and administrative activities, and implementing the resolutions of the Executive Committee. In a nutshell, as director I have to manage a complex institute that employs a total of 1470 researchers whose average age is 34. Forty percent of those researchers are foreigners from 56 different countries ...more
Editorial
Is Italy capable of producing only fashion, designer products and, obviously, agri-foodstuffs? Can the Italian economy progress and evolve only thanks to tourism (Italy’s crude oil????) and our undeniably huge heritage of art and history? Clichés like these are very difficult to dispel. In January 2015 the current Minister of Economic Development, Carlo Calenda, tried to do just that. Participating in the World Economic Forum in Davos, he presented a video entitled Italy the Extraordinary Commonplace (yes commonplace instead of cliché!) to try and confute Italian stereotypes by illustrating our often underrated technological excellence ...more
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