Bartolomucci, F., Trasciani, G., Gerli, F. (2024). Social and Technological Innovation: Cross-Fertilization Needed. In: Chiodo, S., Kaiser, D., Shah, J., Volonté, P. (eds) Improving Technology Through Ethics. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52962-7_8

Mario Calderini , Magali Fia , Francesco Gerli (2023) – Organizing for transformative innovation policies: The role of social enterprises. Theoretical insights and evidence from Italy – https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2023.104818

News – 30th December 2022
Il racconto di Tiresia oggi e come la difesa dell’Impact Integrity rappresenti l’ obiettivo prioritario del 2023 per il centro di ricerca del Politecnico di Milano.

News – 22th December 2022
Siamo contenti di annunciare una nuova importante collaborazione, Tiresia Polimi sarà partner del progetto di valutazione delll’impatto dell’ 8xmille della Conferenza Episcopale Italiana

CREMASCO C. & BONI L. (2022) Is the European Union (EU) Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) effective in shaping sustainability objectives? An analysis of investment funds’ behaviour, Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment, DOI: 10.1080/20430795.2022.2124838

Bengo Irene, Nakamura Chapuis Carolina , Gerli Francesco & Souza Piao Roberta ,
Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, Published online: 09 Sep 2022

BELLAZZECCA E., TEASDALE S., BIOSCA O., SKELTON D. (2022) “The health impacts of place-based creative programmes on older adults’ health: A critical realist review”  www.elsevier.com/locate/healthplace – Health & Place

DE PIERI B., CHIODO V. & GERLI F. (2022) Based on outcomes? Challenges and (missed) opportunities of measuring social outcomes in outcome-based contracting, International Public Management Journal

BONI L. & CALDERINI M. (2022), Rivista Corporate Governance.

BENGO  I., BONI L. & SANCINO A. (2021), Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 1– 11. https://doi.org/10.1002/csr.2235

November 2021

Negli ultimi anni la sostenibilità e l’impatto sociale sono stati messi al centro del dibatto economico e di conseguenza sono diventati parte dell’agenda politica di molti degli attori globali. Si tratta di un cambiamento di paradigma a livello mondiale che ha portato a una progressiva sensibilizzazione dell’opinione pubblica sul tema. Il fatto che eventi importanti, come la definizione degli Obiettivi di Sviluppo Sostenibile (SDGs) delle Nazioni Unite, l’Accordo di Parigi, o il manifesto del Business Roundtable, abbiamo conquistato le prime pagine dei giornali di tutto il mondo ha inevitabilmente influenzato il dibattito pubblico.

Siamo di fronte a un processo che non si è interrotto, benché il rischio in questo senso ci fosse, nemmeno nel periodo della pandemia da Covid-19. Nonostante la retorica dell’economia di guerra che ha caratterizzato l’emergenza, la sostenibilità è diventata un imperativo assoluto, riconosciuto da tutti gli agenti economici. Tutti hanno sottolineato la centralità dell’impatto, ma solo in questo modo è stato possibile vincere la battaglia dell’advocacy su questi temi: al giorno d’oggi risulta quasi impossibile trovare qualcuno che non si dichiari “sostenibile”, attento dalle tematiche ambientali e di lotta alla diseguaglianza sociale.

Di pari passo con questi cambiamenti culturali, la normativa che regola la possibilità di essere definiti “sostenibili” a livello ambienta

The specific challenge of SEED is to stimulate and support the establishment of four Social Innovation Competence Centers in Italy, Greece, Romania and Slovenia. Researchers, practitioners, policy-makers and civil servants will work together to create public and open infrastructures capable of assisting national European Social Fund (ESF) managerial authorities to better imply the ESF+ funds for the mainstream of SI as a Public Sector Innovation approach to societal challenges.​ The ultimate scope of SEED is to prepare such an environment that related actions in the field of​ social innovation under the next ESF+ programme are established and developed more robustly, and their potential can be fully exploited at a national and european level.​

The innovation project aimed to encourage innovation and technology transfer in the cultural field, supporting institutions in rethinking their activities and functioning by establishing collaborations with companies active in the cultural and creative sector. ​
The central part of the project was a call for innovators directed to companies and startups active in the cultural and creative sector. These companies could access an entrepreneurial incubation program, carried out by Cariplo Factory, with the support of other realities and sector experts in the cultural, museum, impact, and business sectors. The incubation program aimed to provide tools and methods to strengthen the skills of the ICC’s team members and validate and develop a service-product offer to respond efficiently and effectively to the museums’ needs. After the incubation, cultural and creative companies were invited to take part in the Match-Making Day. During that day, they had the opportunity to present their product-service to potential partners represented by the participating Lombard museums to generate mutual development opportunities. The projects jointly developed were supported by a tender launched by the Lombardy Region to implement pilot projects. ​
TIRESIA had a double role in the project: providing capacity building sessions on impact measurement and social business modeling; measuring the overall impact generated by the project Innovamusei. ​
​ ​

SociABìliTA’s goal is to relaunch the distinctive role of cooperation in real estate and infrastructure investments aimed at providing Services of General Interest through the recognition of the social value generated.

Tiresia is a partner of the project Road to Social Change. The project consists of a training programme for social economy organisations.

83 research partners in Europe and Africa supporting innovation and building renewable energy solutions together.

GERLI, F., CALDERINI M. & CHIODO V. (2021). European Planning Studies from Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.

This first publication is on the EU SFDR Regulation. It redefines the boundaries of financial actors’ investment approaches to sustainability, aiming at reducing information asymmetries and the risk of greenwashing.     Since financial actors consider sustainability under different perspectives, their arising need to report social and environmental impact poses doubts on how to measure social [...]

BENGO I., BORRELLO A. & CHIODO V. (2021). Sustainability 2021, 13(5), 2852; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13052852. This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability

GERLI, F., CHIODO F. & BENGO I. (2020). Sustainability 2021, 13, 20 (This article belongs to the Special Issue Social Businesses and Social Entrepreneurship in the Face of Sustainable Development Challenges)

I.BENGO, V.CHIODO and V.TOSI (2020). In book: Entrepreneurship [Working Title] DOI:10.5772/intechopen.94441 ;

ARENAS DIAZ, G. ; GUZZETTI, G.; IRIGOYEN, S.; NARDI, P (2020). . In C. Nägele, B. E. Stalder, & N. Kersh (Eds.), Trends in vocational education and training research, Vol. III. Proceedings of the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Vocational Education and
Training Network (VETNET) (pp. 19–29). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4005697

CALDERINI, M., FIA, M. & GERLI F. (2020). presented at 80th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management 7-11 August 2020 titled “Broadenining our sight” Published Online:29 Jul 2020. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2020.19088abstract

BONI, L.; TOSCHI, L.; FINI, R. Sustainability 2021, 13, 5293. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13095293. This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Venture Capital and Social Impact Investment Management

BENGO, I., ARENA, M. (2019). International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management 68(2) DOI:10.1108/IJPPM-02-2018-0066

AL TAJI, F. N. A., & BENGO, I. (2018). Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, 1-18.

IRENE BENGO (2018). Public Money & Management, 38:5, 391-392, DOI: 10.1080/09540962.2018.1471817

CALDERINI, M. & FIA, M. (2018). Presented at the EURAM Conference 2018 under the track “Rethinking the Form, Governance & Legal Constitution of Corporations: Theoretical Issues & Social Stakes”

ARENA, M., BENGO, I., CALDERINI, M. & CHIODO, V. (2017).  Technological Forecasting and Social Change.  127, 154-165

BENGO, I., CALDERINI, M. (2016). Public Money & Management, 36(4), 303-306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2016.1162999

ARENA, M., BENGO, I., CALDERINI, M., CHIODO, V. (2016). International Journal of Public Administration, 39(12), 927-939. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01900692.2015.1057852 

ARENA, M., AZZONE, G., BENGO, I., CALDERINI, M. (2016).Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, 7(1), 1-24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19420676.2015.1049286

News – 30th December 2022
Il racconto di Tiresia oggi e come la difesa dell’Impact Integrity rappresenti l’ obiettivo prioritario del 2023 per il centro di ricerca del Politecnico di Milano.

News – 22th December 2022
Siamo contenti di annunciare una nuova importante collaborazione, Tiresia Polimi sarà partner del progetto di valutazione delll’impatto dell’ 8xmille della Conferenza Episcopale Italiana

BENGO  I., BONI L. & SANCINO A. (2021), Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 1– 11. https://doi.org/10.1002/csr.2235

November 2021

Negli ultimi anni la sostenibilità e l’impatto sociale sono stati messi al centro del dibatto economico e di conseguenza sono diventati parte dell’agenda politica di molti degli attori globali. Si tratta di un cambiamento di paradigma a livello mondiale che ha portato a una progressiva sensibilizzazione dell’opinione pubblica sul tema. Il fatto che eventi importanti, come la definizione degli Obiettivi di Sviluppo Sostenibile (SDGs) delle Nazioni Unite, l’Accordo di Parigi, o il manifesto del Business Roundtable, abbiamo conquistato le prime pagine dei giornali di tutto il mondo ha inevitabilmente influenzato il dibattito pubblico.

Siamo di fronte a un processo che non si è interrotto, benché il rischio in questo senso ci fosse, nemmeno nel periodo della pandemia da Covid-19. Nonostante la retorica dell’economia di guerra che ha caratterizzato l’emergenza, la sostenibilità è diventata un imperativo assoluto, riconosciuto da tutti gli agenti economici. Tutti hanno sottolineato la centralità dell’impatto, ma solo in questo modo è stato possibile vincere la battaglia dell’advocacy su questi temi: al giorno d’oggi risulta quasi impossibile trovare qualcuno che non si dichiari “sostenibile”, attento dalle tematiche ambientali e di lotta alla diseguaglianza sociale.

Di pari passo con questi cambiamenti culturali, la normativa che regola la possibilità di essere definiti “sostenibili” a livello ambienta

The specific challenge of SEED is to stimulate and support the establishment of four Social Innovation Competence Centers in Italy, Greece, Romania and Slovenia. Researchers, practitioners, policy-makers and civil servants will work together to create public and open infrastructures capable of assisting national European Social Fund (ESF) managerial authorities to better imply the ESF+ funds for the mainstream of SI as a Public Sector Innovation approach to societal challenges.​ The ultimate scope of SEED is to prepare such an environment that related actions in the field of​ social innovation under the next ESF+ programme are established and developed more robustly, and their potential can be fully exploited at a national and european level.​

Social Energy Renovations (SER) project stimulates sustainable renovation in the third sector.

The specific challenge of SEED is to stimulate and support the establishment of four Social Innovation Competence Centers in Italy, Greece, Romania and Slovenia. Researchers, practitioners, policy-makers and civil servants will work together to create public and open infrastructures capable of assisting national European Social Fund (ESF) managerial authorities to better imply the ESF+ funds for the mainstream of SI as a Public Sector Innovation approach to societal challenges.​ The ultimate scope of SEED is to prepare such an environment that related actions in the field of​ social innovation under the next ESF+ programme are established and developed more robustly, and their potential can be fully exploited at a national and european level.​

The innovation project aimed to encourage innovation and technology transfer in the cultural field, supporting institutions in rethinking their activities and functioning by establishing collaborations with companies active in the cultural and creative sector. ​
The central part of the project was a call for innovators directed to companies and startups active in the cultural and creative sector. These companies could access an entrepreneurial incubation program, carried out by Cariplo Factory, with the support of other realities and sector experts in the cultural, museum, impact, and business sectors. The incubation program aimed to provide tools and methods to strengthen the skills of the ICC’s team members and validate and develop a service-product offer to respond efficiently and effectively to the museums’ needs. After the incubation, cultural and creative companies were invited to take part in the Match-Making Day. During that day, they had the opportunity to present their product-service to potential partners represented by the participating Lombard museums to generate mutual development opportunities. The projects jointly developed were supported by a tender launched by the Lombardy Region to implement pilot projects. ​
TIRESIA had a double role in the project: providing capacity building sessions on impact measurement and social business modeling; measuring the overall impact generated by the project Innovamusei. ​
​ ​

SociABìliTA’s goal is to relaunch the distinctive role of cooperation in real estate and infrastructure investments aimed at providing Services of General Interest through the recognition of the social value generated.

Tiresia is a partner of the project Road to Social Change. The project consists of a training programme for social economy organisations.

83 research partners in Europe and Africa supporting innovation and building renewable energy solutions together.

The consortium involves 20 to 30 leading social entrepreneurs, investors, experts and governments representatives from the countries concerned by the project (United States of America, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, and India and other five European countries: France, Spain, Italy, Germany and Belgium) in the Peer-learning experience on social impact measurement.Social impact measurement is a common stake worldwide since there is a wide range of methodologies

Social outcome contracts (SOCs) is a relatively new type of mechanism in public service procurement. It focuses on harnessing the resources of the public, private, philanthropy, and civil society sectors to jointly implement effective interventions in the public domain. This tool should provide potential to modernise public services and European welfare regimes: by encouraging a culture of performance measurement, supporting cross-sector partnerships and allowing new intervention models to be piloted and scaled — thereby fostering learning and social innovation. Nevertheless, little empirical research compares SOC models with traditional financings (TF) mechanisms such as subsidies, grants, fee-for-service contracts, block contracts and in-house delivery.

This first publication is on the EU SFDR Regulation. It redefines the boundaries of financial actors’ investment approaches to sustainability, aiming at reducing information asymmetries and the risk of greenwashing.     Since financial actors consider sustainability under different perspectives, their arising need to report social and environmental impact poses doubts on how to measure social [...]

ARENA, M., BENGO, I., CALDERINI, M. & CHIODO, V. (2017).  Technological Forecasting and Social Change.  127, 154-165

BENGO, I., CALDERINI, M. (2016). Public Money & Management, 36(4), 303-306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2016.1162999

ARENA, M., BENGO, I., CALDERINI, M., CHIODO, V. (2016). International Journal of Public Administration, 39(12), 927-939. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01900692.2015.1057852 

ARENA, M., AZZONE, G., BENGO, I., CALDERINI, M. (2016).Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, 7(1), 1-24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19420676.2015.1049286