In the effort to contrast hate speech—explicit or implicit derogatory linguistic acts aimed at specific target groups, resulting in discrimination—it is vital to incorporate a perspective rooted in the history of ideas. More broadly, understanding the history of emotions and critically reflecting on the vocabulary used to express them stands as a crucial point, capable of influencing and innovating various aspects of our education and initiatives against hate-related phenomena. Hence, following…

Patent analysis allows for the anticipation of products, processes, and services that will be introduced to the market several years in advance. Monitoring patent trends is therefore highly useful to understand which sectors will emerge globally and to assess how a company or an entire nation positions itself within them. In the fourth Report on Research and Innovation of the DSU-CNR, we examined emerging sectors based on patent statistics. The results indicate that digital technolog…

The data and results presented in this paper are taken from the fourth edition of the CNR-DSU Report on Research and Innovation in Italy and analyze critical issues related to the provision of national competitive (or “project-based”) R&D funding instruments. Until the years of the COVID-19 pandemic, Italian funding for “project-based” R&D suffered from a modest budget and a limited variety of competitive instruments. The disbursement of funds to beneficiaries was characterized by a d…