Distinctive Features

The distinctive features of the Mediterranean School can be synthesized in the following keywords:

Network. Since its beginning, the main focus has been the creation of a wide Mediterranean “network” to develop, coherently with the local national policies, the intellectual capital necessary to accelerate the leapfrog of the Southern Mediterranean Countries into the Knowledge Economy, preventing the casting out of the countries on the score of the global competitive dynamics.

Problem Orientation. The Mediterranean School aims to provide innovative solutions to managerial and business problems, by transforming the threats of globalization in opportunities to growth, by exploiting the potentialities offered by the ICT. This approach implies the creation of an integrated system of Research, Higher Education and specific actions to diffuse ICT-enabled innovations.

Interdisciplinarity and Knowledge Integration. The problem-oriented strategy needs an interdisciplinary approach, capable to overcome the traditional disciplinary separation between Business Management and ICT Management, so to allow a “just in time” perspective in the development of that set of competences useful to manage the emerging challenges of the current scenarios.

Young talents as driver of development. The perspective of creating a multi-cultural leading class able to manage ICT-driven change, disseminate innovative practices, and develop the competencies necessary to sustain the modernization of Mediterranean economies, focuses on the young talented people, on their creativity, their team working values, their innovation-based approaches, their thought “out-of-the-schemas”..

Academic Entrepreneurship. Firms represent a real context in which problems and challenges emerge; moreover the proximity between public and private actors offers to the researchers and members of the school the possibility to foresee new theoretical exploration opportunities in the managerial as well as entrepreneurial milieu.

Multilateral Cooperation. The vision is to create a thick multilateral network North-South and South-South, capable to activate virtuous collaborations between the opposite sides of the sea.