National Projects
3POD - 3D Printing in Orthopedics for Personalized Devices
Scientific Director: Daniele Mascia
Modern additive manufacturing technology (also known as 3D printing or 3DP) allows each product to be manufactured layer by layer according to a computerized model. This finally makes it possible to design personalized medical devices based on each individual patient's disease, deformity, size, condition, and request. To achieve this, additional imaging and analysis are required, and therefore additional resources. This can lead to improved performance, easier implantation, fewer instruments, more cost-effective procedures, and a shorter recovery and rehabilitation period. This project aims to quantify the effectiveness, cost-benefit, and other impacts of introducing this new technology into orthopedics. Various custom-made implants will be analyzed, both for severe bone loss and for elective surgery. These implants will be classified based on the joint involved and the original pathology. Clinical outcomes, timelines, costs, benefits, and team organization will be tracked. The impacts on the organization of an orthopedic center will also be analyzed.
CTE-ROL - House of Emerging Technologies
Scientific lead: Fernando Christian Iaione
The CTE-ROL project, spearheaded by Roma Capitale, aims to create a physical innovation space—the Casa delle Tecnologie Emergenti—within the Roma Tiburtina station. This space will enable teams of researchers, startups, and SMEs to submit proposals for developing, implementing, and bringing to market solutions based on 5G, the Internet of Things, Blockchain, and Artificial Intelligence. They will also have the opportunity to participate in technology transfer programs, educational workshops, and networking events with companies operating in the sector.
FinTech and Artificial Intelligence in the financial markets
Scientific lead: Emanuele Tarantino
The project focuses on how banks’ adoption of machine learning technologies impacts business lending. There is ample evidence that financial intermediaries use algorithms to make investment decisions. The project focuses on how the automation of credit-granting processes affects competition among banks. A structural model of competition among banks is estimated using a dataset containing information on loans issued by Italian banks. Counterfactual scenarios are then considered, where banks compete using unsupervised learning algorithms to determine their credit policies.
Digital Geopolitics
Scientific lead: Raffaele Marchetti
The project is being carried out by the Med-Or Foundation in collaboration with the Center for International and Strategic Studies (CISS) at Luiss Guido Carli University. The research aims to produce analyses on issues that intersect digital policy and international relations, with the goal of advancing academic knowledge, fueling policy debate in both the Italian and international contexts, and promoting the dissemination of information on these topics. The research is divided into two main phases: the preparation of ten analytical papers and a final conference to present this research. These papers and the conference will benefit from the extensive networks of both the Med-Or Foundation and Luiss University. This will allow us to involve not only leading international experts as paper authors, but also prominent stakeholders from the institutional and business sectors as guests at the final conference.
Per.Se.O - Pathways, Services, and Guidance for the Social and Labor Market Inclusion of Individuals Granted International Protection
Scientific Director: Livia De Giovanni
The main goal of Per.Se.O is to ensure support for the employment integration of refugees in Italy, contributing to their overall autonomy. This is to be achieved through the creation of specific, individualized pathways for socio-economic integration following their exit from the reception system. The scientific research focuses on monitoring and evaluating the various areas of intervention promoted, as well as the pathways and services provided to refugees who have been out of the reception system for 18 months. The main purpose of monitoring is to identify any deviations from the set objectives, enabling timely corrective actions, including through the collection of qualitative and quantitative indicators. The ex-post evaluation covers the entire project period, with a particular focus on its impact and various aspects of efficiency (in resource use), effectiveness (in meeting objectives), and sustainability.
PRO-BEN Lazio 2 - An intervention model focused on mental and physical well-being
Scientific Director: Emiliana De Blasio
The PRO-BEN Lazio 2 project, an intervention model dedicated to the psychophysical well-being and personal and emotional growth of the student population, aims to implement initiatives that promote psychophysical well-being, establish pathways for inclusion and personal and emotional growth among the student population, and prevent and combat emotional distress.
SISFO - AP – Integrated Smart System for the Use of Organic Fertilizer in Precision Agriculture
Scientific lead: Matteo Giuliano Caroli
The main goal of the SISFO-AP project is to create an intelligent, integrated system for using organic fertilizer in precision agriculture. The SISFO-AP system integrates several components: a plant capable of producing solid and liquid fertilizer from organic wastewater from various sources, an IoT monitoring and control platform, and a smart irrigation system for using the fertilizer produced in agriculture.
Financial support received
Total contribution: €1,138,038.61
Grant awarded: €797,414.65
The project is co-financed with funds from the Lazio Region's POR-FESR 2021/2027, under the Public Notice “Competitive Repositioning of RSI” – POR FESR Lazio 2021-2027, approved by Decree No. G08487 of December 28, 2022.
Smart Agri Tools – Software and Hardware Systems for Precision Agriculture and the Analysis of Economic Models
Scientific lead: Gianluca Fabbri
The Smart Agri Tools project focuses on studying and demonstrating software and hardware systems for precision agriculture, as well as analyzing economic models. The project, born from a joint agreement between Luiss and the University of Tuscia, aims to leverage the expertise of the Luiss Business School to build on the results of previous research. The goal is to demonstrate solutions for precision agriculture in operational environments. To encourage stakeholders and businesses to participate in the subsequent completion of research development, an online platform for communicating and disseminating results will be created and integrated with an IT tool.
Financial support received
Total contribution: €147,657.82
Luiss Business School contribution: €103,577.82
The project is co-financed with funds from the Lazio Region's POR-FESR 2014/2020, under the Public Call for Research Groups 2020 – POR FESR Lazio 2014-2020, approved by Decree No. G08487 of July 19, 2020.
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Completed projects
Scientific lead: Antonino Gullo
The project's aim—continuing from the first research cycle—is to contribute to the development of a new theoretical framework for international politics that is suitable for understanding and analyzing coordinated disinformation operations in Italy. The long-term goal, therefore, is to help organize and consolidate a field of research that is still in its early stages, particularly within the Italian scientific discourse—namely, the empirical study of coordinated disinformation operations. The key short-term goal, however, is to draft a practical manual that includes guidelines and policy recommendations to prevent or mitigate the effects of coordinated disinformation operations in the Italian context, whether carried out by state or private actors.
Scientific lead: Antonino Gullo
The use of big data analytics and artificial intelligence software is an emerging trend in preventing the risk of wrongdoing within companies and, more broadly, within complex organizations. The research project aims to focus on the challenging scenario of potentially automating criminal compliance, starting from the premise that, in this field, theoretical issues and practical implications have, to date, received little attention. The proposed research therefore aims to analyze the benefits and risks of using these systems, placing these practices within the “general categories” of corporate criminal liability from a comparative perspective. The goal is to identify solutions that would allow, particularly in the private sector, the use of similar innovative prevention methodologies while minimizing the risk of facing penalties.
Scientific Director: Paolo Spagnoletti
The CYBER 4.0 project aims to establish a highly specialized Competence Center dedicated to specific thematic areas of cybersecurity, including e-health, the automotive industry, and space. Specifically, it is one of the eight competence centers for “Industry 4.0” established by the MISE (Ministry of Economic Development). CYBER 4.0 is a public-private partnership that brings together public research organizations, non-economic public entities, and private entities (including large companies, SMEs, and foundations). Its goal is to provide guidance, training, research, and innovation services to the business community.
Scientific lead: Fabiano Schivardi
The project aims to delve into the impact of COVID-19 on businesses and households, as well as potential policy responses. It focuses on the economic and production crisis that followed the pandemic, analyzing the effects of government measures to limit its spread on both businesses and households. Additionally, the project seeks to examine and assess the healthcare costs associated with the operations of businesses in the so-called “essential sectors,” specifically quantifying how many infections can be attributed to those that continued to operate during the lockdown.
Scientific Director: Raffaele Marchetti
The project aims to analyze the international, regional, and national drivers shaping Italy’s position in European defense. This goal will be pursued through a two-pronged strategy: on the one hand, the research team aims to map the evolution of European defense and Italy’s participation in the three major recent initiatives in this field: PESCO, EDF, and CARD. The project will develop quantitative indicators to estimate Italy's contribution to European defense, complemented by a detailed qualitative analysis of European opportunities in a rapidly changing political and diplomatic landscape. Secondly, the project aims to establish focus groups and understand the varying preferences of political, bureaucratic, and industrial stakeholders, and then examine the strengths and weaknesses of Italy’s position in Europe. To conclude, the research team will organize an international conference at Luiss Guido Carli in Rome, featuring both policymakers and internationally renowned scholars.
Scientific lead: Pietro De Giovanni
The project promotes the development of the concept of responsible digitization in supply chain (SC) management. Specifically, the project focuses on identifying an effective digital transformation process that SCs can undertake to achieve Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) goals. The project comprises three work packages, each linked to a different technology available to SCs for achieving responsible digitalization: Industry 4.0, Blockchain, and Artificial Intelligence systems. Although the economic and operational benefits of these technologies have been extensively documented in the literature, several questions remain regarding their implications for CSR. For example, adopting blockchain technology helps achieve SC risk reduction goals; however, its use requires high energy consumption, which has environmental impacts. This project aims to identify all potential trade-offs resulting from the digital transformation in SCs by analyzing the key components of CSR—such as economic, environmental, and social performance—through the triangulation of methodologies.
Scientific lead: Michele Sorice
This project aims to explore how political participation evolved during the Great Recession and, potentially, the current pandemic crisis. We view these as critical global moments, both for their economic impact and the political consequences they've brought about. The project primarily focuses on studying uneven political participation and the effects of these critical global moments on political inequalities. By analyzing the stratification of political participation, the study aims to identify potential mechanisms that could mitigate participation inequalities. In particular, two processes will be studied as potential drivers for mobilizing traditionally underrepresented citizens. On the one hand, the study will analyze how populism impacted participation behavior during the Great Recession, assuming that populist parties—by appealing to lower social strata—could have played a positive role in promoting participation among these social groups. On the other hand, it will explore the role of online participation tools in facilitating offline participation.
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