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An Organizational Culture for Innovation in Healthcare
Healthcare innovation depends on organizational values rather than technology or top-down mandates. When leadership fosters psychological safety, patient focus, and learning from failure, frontline staff feel empowered to innovate. Aligning incentives, time, and behavior with these values enables sustainable, bottom-up improvement.

Prof Gillie Gabay
Jan 165 min read


The long shadow of taxation on investment
Tax policy affects economic growth slowly and mainly through long-term investment decisions. Higher corporate taxes reduce investment returns, while tax cuts raise investment, especially in R&D and education. Using historical OECD data, the study shows that short-run growth effects are modest, but long-run impacts on innovation and human capital are substantial and decisive for sustained prosperity.

Dr Francesco Venturini
Jan 153 min read


The New Year's Resolution for Innovation: Rituals as the 2026 Compass
Healthcare innovation often fails because leaders rely on abstract resolutions rather than culture. Replacing New Year’s goals with daily rituals that foster psychological safety, learning, and agility can embed innovation into everyday work. Aligning incentives, leadership behavior, and routines helps reduce burnout and makes innovation sustainable in 2026.

Prof Gillie Gabay
Jan 135 min read


From Pollution Havens to Green Havens: When Environmental Standards Help Countries Become More Competitive
The text argues that strict environmental standards can attract green industries rather than drive them away. Evidence shows firms producing green products prefer “green havens” with strong regulation to ensure credibility, transparency, and legitimacy. As sustainability becomes valuable, globalization is shifting toward a “race to the top,” where regulation supports competitiveness.

Prof George Batsakis
Jan 135 min read


Scrolling for Connection: Social Media, Loneliness, and the Long Shadow of Childhood
The text argues that heavy social media use, especially passive scrolling, is linked to higher loneliness and emotional distress among young people. Childhood adversity shapes how adults use platforms, making social media a coping mechanism rather than a source of connection, and reproducing deeper social and mental health inequalities.

Prof Cristina Elisa Orso
Jan 135 min read


Power and Money on the Platforms: How Streaming Studios Became the New Gatekeepers of Global Culture
The text argues that streaming platforms like Netflix have become the new gatekeepers of global culture. Through acquisitions, revenue-sharing rules, algorithms, and vertically integrated business models, platforms now control content creation, visibility, and monetization, reshaping power relations among studios, creators, and audiences and redefining cultural governance worldwide.

Prof George Batsakis
Jan 125 min read


Do ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Other LLM Technologies Make Nations Wealthier? Some Early Evidence
The text examines whether Generative AI increases national income. Using patent data, it finds that countries innovating in GenAI show a small but positive GDP per capita growth premium. While effects are modest, they are economically meaningful, appear stronger than general AI, and suggest GenAI is already contributing to long-term economic growth despite its recent emergence.

Dr Francesco Venturini
Jan 93 min read


Occupational Exposure to Generative Artificial Intelligence: A Structural Perspective on Labour Market Transformation
This article argues that generative AI will transform jobs by reshaping tasks rather than eliminating occupations. Using a task-based ILO framework, it shows clerical jobs face the highest exposure, professionals moderate exposure, and manual or service roles much lower risk. The main impact is gradual job transformation, calling for targeted reskilling and adaptive labour policies.

Dr Fernando Pinto Hernández
Jan 95 min read


Can Vaccination Prevent Chronic Diseases?
Research increasingly shows vaccines may help prevent chronic diseases, not just infections. Studies link shingles vaccination to a lower dementia risk and HPV vaccination to cancer prevention. By reducing viral reactivation and inflammation, vaccines can protect long-term brain and overall health, highlighting their role as investments in lifelong disease prevention.

Dr Catia Nicodemo
Jan 96 min read


Generational Dynamics: Consumption, Technology, and Socio-Economic Transformations from Baby Boomers to Generation Alpha
The global population consists of multiple generations shaped by their historical contexts, from the Silent Generation to the emerging Generation Beta (born from 2026). These cohorts differ in economic roles, digital fluency, and consumption patterns. Understanding generational differences helps businesses, policymakers, and researchers better anticipate social, economic, and behavioral trends.

Dr Bidit Dey
Jan 97 min read
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