Alessia Ferraresi
President
contact:
dr. Alessia Ferraresi
tel: 0039 347 2564723
fax: 0039 0424 565780
organization:
Ferraresi&Michelsons (IT) and Global Research&Finaning (Israel)
Valperga Caluso street, 16 , 10125 , Torino , ITALY and ISRAEL
http://www.ferraresimichelsons.it
biography:
ALESSIA FERRARESI PROFILE
Alessia Ferraresi, project designer, a degree as Master of Art at the Ca` Foscari University, Venice. Her many post degree specializations include “Customer satisfaction in the service sector” (2000), “Marketing and business comunication” (2001), “European economic policies” (Bruxelles, European Parliament, 2003), “Principles and methodologies for project design and evaluation on regional strategies and development” (Bruxelles, 2004). She`s got also a Master in Eurodesign at the Venice International (2002).She has worked as a general manager for CNA-National confederation of small and medium enterprises - on the following topics: project design and organisation of the structure InProprio in the Veneto region; design and implementation of innovative services for self-employers and micro-enterprises and management of innovative relations; European project design for the latter based on direct innovation funds; feasibility studies for the creation of innovative incubators; chairperson of the CNA National working group on communication and for the European project design and training groups, teacher on European project design, entrepreneurship and communication. She is president of Global Research & Financing in Tel Aviv - Israel and consultant for EURECNA, OECD (for charter for SMEs) and EBRD.
She has participated in the Strategic planning of the Provincia di Treviso, and in the Green Paper on Entrepreneurship in Europe presented by the European Commission in 2003; project designer and chairperson of a research team for the University of Padua in a project on Self-employers and the micro-enterprises (2003-04); project designer and consultant for Piemonte region`s strategic plan; project and scientific director in Piemonte region for foresight exercises aimed to map regional clusters and to implement policy recommendations for a new regional law on clusters. Recently she has been admitted to the experts database of the IRE on clusters, entrepreneurship (academic spin-off; start up companies) and innovation management (foresight exercises).
Speaker at the National conference on Autoimprenditorialità negli scenari economici e nei cambiamenti normativi futuri, with a paper on “New experiences of coaching the self-employers: the EU contribution”, Treviso, 2003, at the conference for the European project “Millennium train” with a paper on The self-employers – 2003, at the seminar on Development of clusters in Asia with a paper on The european policies for clusters development, Grenoble 2005, at the “Salone dello sviluppo locale” on Le città tra governo e governance: innovazione amministrativa e politiche istituzionali, Barletta 2005, and at the international workshop on The new division of labour, London 2005.
Recent pubblications and works:
• Europe and Innovation, La Voce, 2005
• Regional Strategi Plan of Piemonte region on Clusters and socioeconomic networks, 2005
• The crysis of industry and new forms of entrepreneurship in the local urban systems with a paper on New forms of entrepreneurship, networks, clusters between regions and the European Union - Turin 2005
• Construction of the regional advantage. Some suggestions, La voce, 2006
• How actors play politics on the local scene. Policy markets, governance processes and communication, Turku - Finland, 2006
• The triple helix system in action: the Hi-Mech cluster in Emilia Romagna region, Bristol, 2006
• La complessità. Clusters, aziende, persone, Vicenza, 2006
• Coll-plexity project - NEST programme 2006 (with Global Research)
• Foresight exercise for Piemonte region: clusters mapping and policy implementation, for Piemonte region, Torino, 2006
• Modello superato, bisogna valorizzare i clusters, interview on Ilsole24ore, 19.07.2006
• Fields and players: sustainable development and triple helix. Policy, communication tools and behaviours, Wuppertal, 2006
• Theoretical introduction to complexity, Knowledge board, 2006 http://www.knowledgeboard.com/lib/3482
• Entrepreneurship and knowledge workers, in An ongoing transformation: crysis and reconfiguration, Feltrinelli Fundation, forthcoming
• European project design for RTD handbook¸ FrancoAngeli, forthcoming