During this event we will be introduced to two new scientific data-based theories that explain the new world we live in.
Economic Fitness and Complexity methodology, to which contributed our guest, professor Luciano Pietronero, describes economics as evolutionary process of ecosystems made of industrial and financial technologies that are all globally interconnected. The dynamics in the new GDP-Fitness space opens up to a completely new way for monitoring, planning and forecasting the economic growth of countries, to the point that the methodology has already been adopted by the IFC-World Bank. Extensions to technologies and science permit to analyze also companies, specific industries and, in general the innovation and creativity process.
Another aspect stricly connected with data is the spread of so-called fake news. Our guest Walter Quattrociocchi will share with us a work that provides quantitative evidence about the cognitive determinants behind misinformation and rumor spreading. This researches, focused on Italian and US data, provided results that have been included in the Global Risk Report presented by the World Economic Forum in 2016 and 2017.
