In the Italian journal Meridiana, I published a new article taken from the EU Funded Project CRESSI entitled 
“La dimensione territoriale dell’innovazione sociale. Il caso dei gruppi di acquisto solidale“. The article studies the impact of the geographical context on the activities of the Solidarity Purchasing Groups, which I already defined as one of the most interesting cases of social innovation in alternative food networks in Italy. (more…)
I’m very happy to announce that my article “Are Solidarity Purchasing Groups a Social Innovation? A study inspired by Social Forces” has been published by PACO, in the issue 3 of 2017. This study stems from the EU Funded Project CrESSI (2014-2018) and it aims at studying social innovations cases in their capacity to tackle economic marginalisation of beneficiaries. And the answer is yes, they are. (more…)
January, 18th I have invited my colleague and friend Davide Arcidiacono (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano) for giving a seminar at the Iscola IGOP. The seminar was entitled: “Social Innovation in Agricolture and Food. The case of Italian Solidarity Purchasing Groups“. Our paper was discussed by Marc Pradel, from the department of sociology of University of Barcelona. (more…)
It has now been published online a comprehensive report for the EU funded project CRESSI, in which the research team compare the four cases of social innovation that have been part of the project. (more…)
Is Social Innovation able to challenge gender inequalities? The article I published for the Journal of Social Entrepreneurship tries to give a first preliminary answer to the question. The article is entitled “Does Social Innovation Reduce the Economic Marginalization of Women? Insights from the Case of Italian Solidarity Purchasing Groups”. (more…)
