The Innovation, Strategy and Family Business center integrates three synergistic research areas to understand and enhance the ability of firms, entrepreneurs, and entrepreneurial families to address today’s major competitive challenges.

• Strategic transformation: It studies the processes of defining and implementing Purpose—the raison d’être of an organization—which facilitate the alignment of firms’ goals, values, and strategic choices.
• Innovation: It explores strategies and organizational choices that foster innovation in firms, with a particular focus on the pivotal role of Open Innovation in driving growth and strategic development through collaborations with external partners.
• Governance: It delves into the distinctive characteristics of Family Firms, with a special emphasis on the role of Family Offices in ensuring the continuity of families, businesses, and wealth across generations.

The center is distinguished by the international excellence of its research activities, as evidenced by numerous publications in prestigious international journals and its leadership roles in high-impact projects and initiatives. It is also characterized by an approach that leverages continuous interaction between research and practice to generate meaningful implications for the strategic development of firms and entrepreneurs.

The impact of the center is realized through numerous workshops, webinars, conferences, report publications, and other collaborative initiatives that annually engage more than one hundred companies and thousands of entrepreneurs and managers in Italy and worldwide.