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16 lecturers from the School of Management of the Politecnico di Milano among the world’s best researchers according to the Stanford-Elsevier rankings

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A prestigious award that recognises the global scientific impact of our faculty in the academic research landscape.

 

 

In the latest update of the international database of scientific authors with relevant citations, compiled by Stanford University in collaboration with Elsevier, 14 faculty members from the School of Management of the Politecnico di Milano are included in the 2% of the most cited researchers in the world in the year 2023 and 6 professors are recognised for their scientific contribution throughout their careers, up to 2023, for a total of 16 professors.

To assess the impact of publications, the ranking uses bibliometric data extracted from Scopus, one of the largest databases of scientific citations.

The list of 14 professors from the School of Management of the Politecnico di Milano included in the top 2% of the world’s most cited researchers in the year 2023, divided into 22 subject areas and 174 thematic sub-categories:

  • Tommaso Agasisti
  • Enrico Cagno
  • Massimo G. Colombo
  • Antonio Ghezzi
  • Luca Grilli
  • Josip Kotlar
  • Giorgio Locatelli
  • Marco Macchi
  • Elisa Negri
  • Giuliano Noci
  • Lucia Piscitello
  • Paolo Rosa
  • Massimo Tavoni
  • Sergio Terzi

The list of 6 faculty members included in the top 2% of the world’s most cited researchers throughout their careers until 2023:

  • Tommaso Agasisti
  • Enrico Cagno
  • Vittorio Chiesa
  • Massimo G. Colombo
  • Giorgio Locatelli
  • Carlo Vercellis

These results provide an overview of the School of Management’s research impact at an international level, demonstrating a significant ability to influence the scientific debate across disciplinary areas. The research conducted ranges from topics related to business management and management engineering to technological innovation and sustainability. The award reflects not only the high quality of the academic contributions produced, but also the relevance of the lines of research, which continue to generate value for the scientific community and the industrial and managerial world.

 

To consult the complete database:
Ioannidis, John P.A. (2024), “August 2024 data-update for ‘Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators’”, Elsevier Data Repository, V7, doi: https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/7

The new role of the DAOs in health research

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A study on the advantages of decentralised autonomous organisations over traditional funding systems

 

A new way of funding pharmacological/health research, with the aim of overcoming certain constraints and making better treatments available for all:

this is the focus of a study published in the journal Nature Biotechnology by Laura Grassi, professor of Investment Banking and of the Finance Lab at the School of Management of Politecnico di Milano.

In the pharmaceutical field, long development cycles, high costs, significant failure rates and price uncertainty substantially hinder the development of new drugs. Traditional funding systems, which are based on the use of equity or grants, often prove to be slow and inadequate to meet the needs of innovative research.

Against this backdrop, the Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) emerge as a possible promising alternative. DAOs use blockchain technology to facilitate transparent and decentralised governance, allowing for quick and direct decisions without the need for intermediaries. Through smart contracts, DAOs can quickly perform complex actions, improving efficiency and reducing bureaucratic and administrative barriers.

The study particularly analysed VitaDAO, an example of how a DAO can be successfully deployed in the life sciences.

Focusing on funding longevity research, VitaDAO enables stakeholders to actively participate in governance and decision-making through the issuance of tokens, which confer voting rights and an ownership stake in the organisation. Not only does this model democratise the funding process, but it also aligns the participants’ interests towards the common goal of advancing research.

However, while offering numerous advantages such as transparency and effective decision-making, there are several points of concern: the regulation of DAOs and the tokens used can be complex and vary significantly among different legal contexts, creating uncertainties; in addition, managing decisions in a fully decentralised and public manner can be time-consuming and compromise efficiency in crisis situations.

Despite these obstacles, the case of VitaDAO illustrates the revolutionary potential of DAOs in overcoming the limitations of the current research funding system. Through strategic collaborations (such as the one with Pfizer), VitaDAO has not only validated its operating model but also proven its ability to attract significant investment, fostering a more open and productive R&D environment in the life sciences.

 

Find out more
The potential of DAOs for funding and collaborative development in the life sciences.

World’s Top 2% Scientist 2023: 13 lecturers from the Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering in the ranking of the world’s best scientists

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The 2023 update of the world ranking of scientists with the highest level of scientific impact has been published based on 2022 data.

 

The October 2023 update of the World Top 2% Scientists includes 13 of our colleagues among the world’s top scientists.

The World Top 2% Scientists is a ranking developed by Stanford University in collaboration with Elsevier and the global scientific research database ‘Scopus’; it aims to identify, among the approximately 9 million scientists who contribute scientific articles, the top 2% for each discipline in terms of their impact on global scientific research over the past year.

The lecturers who achieved this prestigious award were: Tommaso Agasisti, Enrico Cagno, Massimo Colombo, Antonio Ghezzi, Luca Grilli, Christine Harland, Josip Kotlar, Giorgio Locatelli, Marco Macchi, Elisa Negri, Paolo Rosa, Massimo Tavoni and Sergio Terzi.

 

For the complete list: https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/6

ERC Consolidator Grant goes to Massimo Tavoni

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Massimo Tavoni, Full Professor of climate economics at the School of Management of the Politecnico di Milano, is the winner of the ERC Consolidator Grant with the EUNICE project, which aims to reduce uncertainties in climate stabilisation pathways. 

 

Massimo Tavoni, Professor at the School of Management of Politecnico di Milano and Director of the RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment (EIEE), is one of the winners of the 2022 edition of the ERC Consolidator Grants from the European Research Council (ERC), the first pan-European organisation for frontier research.

Professor Tavoni’s research was selected from over two thousand proposals submitted to ERC, which aims to foster scientific excellence by supporting and encouraging competition for funding among the best and most original researchers.

In detail, EUNICE aims to correct errors and biases in the ensembles of climate-energy-economic models that study climate stabilisation, and to develop ways to validate and confirm scenario insights.

The main objective of the project is therefore to develop an innovative and integrated approach to quantify, translate and communicate in an effective and prompt way the main uncertainties associated with low-carbon pathways and scenarios that explore very distant futures, renewing the methodological and experimental bases of model-based climate assessments. Three key objectives for three main research lines: extending current scenarios to the “deep” future and quantifying their uncertainties; removing errors and biases from scenarios to account for short-term disruptions (e.g. extreme and unexpected events); translating maps of the future provided by models into robust and reliable guidelines; and testing how to communicate these in the most effective and timely way.

EUNICE is a project of great relevance also for other research areas: indeed the approach and innovations developed by EUNICE can also be applied to other high-risk environmental, social and technological assessments. Its unique combination of computational and behavioural science and public engagement will be an important mediation tool in debates on fundamental decisions for our society, increasing confidence in and recognition of the scientific method.

 

 

For more information on ERC Consolidator Grants 2022: https://erc.europa.eu/news/erc-2021-consolidator-grants-results

 

 

“The challenge of pursuing impact in research”: now online the new issue of SOMeMagazine

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SOMe Issue #8 has been released.

In this issue we discuss the impact of research and the challenge of defining and measuring it.
Stefano Magistretti and Federico Caniato explain how our School is engaged in building an “impact culture” to be encouraged and sustained over time, also using an assessment framework to evaluate the impact of the our research.

To report some impact cases, Enrico Cagno, Giulia Felice and Lucia Tajoli tell the fundamental role of academic research in supporting the green transition in emerging countries, while Diletta Di Marco shows how citizens can contribute in evaluating the social impact of scientific research, choosing whether or not to support a project. Finally Angelo Cavallo talks about the new space-based technologies that bring opportunities for innovation and sustainability and imply new business models.

In our “Stories” we feature the impact of Covid-19 on the life of working women and some projects promoting sustainability in fashion and corporate behaviors.

 

 

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Previous issues of SOMe:

  • # 1 “Sustainability – Beyond good deeds, a good deal?”
  • Special Issue Covid-19 – “Global transformation, ubiquitous responses
  • #2 “Being entrepreneurial in a high-tech world”
  • #3 “New connections in the post-covid era”
  • #4 “Multidisciplinarity: a new discipline”
  • #5 “Inclusion: shaping a better society for all”
  • #6 “Innovation with a human touch”
  • #7 “From data science to data culture: the emergence of analytics-powered managers”