12 May 2025

9:15-9:30 Welcome

9:30 – 11:00 Session 1: Innovation for Society
Chair: Anete Alberton

• Valentina De Marchi, Maria Pineda-Escobar, Rachel Howell, Michelle Verheij, Peter Knorringa "Frugal innovation and sustainability outcomes: a systematic literature review"
• André Moraes dos Santos "Frugal innovation: experiences and research opportunities in Latin América"
• Filippo Berti Mecocci, Roberto Dellisanti, Amir Maghssudipour "Territorial drivers of social innovations: the role of density externalities and accumulated human capital"

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 – 13:00 Session 2: History and Innovation
Chair: TBA

• Ivan De Noni, Silvia Blasi, Elisa Sabbadin "From nostalgia to sustainability: developing an original typology of retrovation"
• Amir Maghssudipour, Silvia Rita Sedita, Karolina Crespi Gomes "Circular economy dynamics in the apparel industry: the emergence of “retrovation”"
• Jan Vang, Helene Clausen (online) "Retrovation and agricultural supplier development: insights from ongoing interventions-based research among Uganda’s coffee farmers"
• Lorenzo Guerrini "Case studies on the promotion of food engineering innovation through traditional practices and germplasm"
• Mauro Moglianetti "Archeo-inspiration"

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 15:30 Session 3: Digital Technologies, AI, and Sustainable Development I
Chair: Marco Bettiol

• Kieran Conboy (online) TBA

• Fatima Zahra Fakir, Erdem Baydeniz "The future of blockchain in tourism and hospitality"
• Giovanni Battista Dagnino "LICAIM-LUMSA International Research Center for Artificial Intelligence Management"

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 – 17:30 Session 4: Digital Technologies, AI, and Sustainable Development II
Chair: TBA

• Tatia Alpenidze "From job design to skill development: understanding the co-evolutionary dynamics in the technology-driven workplace"
• Roberto Antonietti, Chiara Burlina, Andres Rodriguez-Pose "Digital technology and regional income inequality: are better institutions the solution?"
• Ali Kagan Ozcan, Andrea Ganzaroli "Do they really care? Implications of AI disclosure in social media campaigns on consumer behaviour"

19:30 Dinner

  13 May 2025

9:30 – 11:00 Session 5: Smart Specialization, Resilience, and Innovation
Chair: Chiara Marzocchi

• Ivan De Noni, Andrea Ganzaroli, Luciano Pilotti "Spawning exaptive opportunities in European regions: the missing link in the smart specialization framework"
• Silvia Rita Sedita "Exaptation processes in constraint-based environments"
• Guilherme Luz Tortorella, Flavio Sanson Fogliatto, Ambra Galeazzo, Andrea Furlan, Daniel Luiz De Mattos Nascimento "Lean production and operational performance during disruptive events"

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 – 13:00 Session 6: Circularity and Innovation
Chair: Giuseppe Danese

• Francesco Quatraro "Circular economy technologies in European regions"
• Nega Alemu Berkele, Simone Carmine, Eleonora Di Maria "Bio in, garbage out? A review of paradoxes in the circular bioeconomy"
• Silvia Rita Sedita, Leonardo Mazzoni, Shira Fano "Novelty detection in core-periphery network structures: the evolution of the bio-based materials technological paradigm"
• Sofia Estellés Miguel, Rosa Esteban Amaro, Sofia Aparisi Torrijo "Enhancing sustainability and circularity in the photovoltaic value chain in Spain"