Action Institute is an independent, bipartisan and no profit “Action Tank”. It’s born as civic response to address the urgency of the current economic and social crisis that hit Italy since 2008.
Action Institute is composed of a group of distinguished professionals who excelled in their field of activity, which work on a purely personal and pro bono manner, in order to develop actionable and high-impact proposals to boost the competitiveness of Italy.
Action Institute wants to aggregate people of recognized integrity and proven merit, motivated by a strong civic commitment and coming from a broad and diverse set of backgrounds (industry, finance, entrepreneurship, legal, innovation, consulting, academia, government, judiciary, art and culture, science and media).
Action Institute offers to institutions: access to diversified competences (horizontal, vertical and systemic) and to the best comparative and global practices; interaction with a professional counterparty, motivated by civic sense, that is credible, independent and keen to work on specific projects and focused actions to boost the competitiveness of Italy.
Action Institute offers to the best intellectual energies that care for Italy an effective impact platform.
Action Institute counts on a global network of people spanning within Milan, Rome, New York and London.
Action Institute pursues: Value, Independence, Dialogue, Impact.
Action Institute aggregates people of recognized integrity and proven merit who join the organization pursuing a shared sense of civic awareness, aiming to contribute to the improvement of the Italian society.
Our working groups are composed of experts with proven and deep practical expertise. The solutions we intend to propose reflect the priorities of the Country as a whole and not those of individual groups.
During the elaboration of the solutions we collect different points of view, as well as the opinion of the institutions. We propose practical, actual, feasible and high-impact solutions. All solutions proposed must be consistent with the results obtained from the other working groups and with the values characterizing Action Institute.
Action Institute is free from political or partisan influences and does not pursue specific economic and social doctrines or schools of economic thought: our aim is to elaborate proposals that can effectively improve the “competitiveness” of the Italian system.
Michael Porter (Harvard Business School) argues that competitiveness depends on the productivity with which a nation uses its human capital, financial capital and natural resources.
“Productivity sets the standards of living (wages, return on investment, returns on natural resources) that a country can sustain […]. It is not what industries a nation competes in that matter for prosperity, but how productively the nation competes in these industries.”
Action Institute is committed to work in synergy with Associations and Universities that share totally or partially its mission and / or values.