The Laboratorio Interdisciplinare Diritti e Regole (LIDER-Lab) at the SSSA has a long tradition of both theoretical and empirical legal research, training and consulting. It covers fields in private law and regulation at national, transnational and international level, read through the lens of comparative law and methodologies. Built upon a strong combination of academic and professional expertise, LIDER-Lab research activities also take advantage of the unique interdisciplinary milieu characterizing SSSA, which allows interactions that range from engineering to life sciences and economics. The laboratory is also strongly embedded into the research network of Tuscan universities in the domain of data science. Moreover, it has hosted and is hosting as coordinator or partner a large number of competitively funded (e.g.) research project strictly related to the proposed infrastructure.
In its training and consulting activities, LIDER-Lab promotes a dialogue between academics, practitioners and experts through the organization of meetings, seminars and workshops. In almost 20 years, LIDER-Lab has focused its activities on a selected array of research areas, combined through a distinctive cross-field and policy-oriented approach. This makes LIDER-Lab of utmost interest both for policy and decision makers and for private actors and market players as well. LIDER-Lab is deeply devoted to analyze the structural changes produced by data science, and data sharing technologies on the applicable legal and ethical frameworks and on how the latter contribute to the shaping, emergence, development and deployment of the former in an innovation and transformation loop. Against this background Lider-Lab thrives to make data sharing trustworthy for all stakeholders helping to define a balanced and human centric governance for it.
Within the Institute of Management there is the Management and Innovation (MAIN) research, whose activities are characterised by a multidisciplinary approach, with a strong empirical orientation and commitment to theory building. In a globalised knowledge economy innovation is more than ever a crucial source for the competitive advantage of firms, other organizations and territories. Organisations of different types need to continuously adapt to technological turbulence and disruption from both the demand and the supply side, and possibly influence them.
This is also a relevant issue for public administrations and cities/regions. Research carried out by researchers in the MAIN area aims at describing, understanding, explaining and facilitating the management of innovation in private businesses, public administrations and cities/regions. Innovation processes are studied from a technological, managerial, organization, cultural and institutional perspective. MAIN builds upon a long tradition of business studies in Pisa under the leadership of Prof. Riccardo Varaldo. It has somehow started from large projects, such as the Link National Project (1998-2001), which led to the establishment of a new science and technology pole (now the Institute of Biorobotics of SSSA), in Pontedera, near Pisa, in close connection with Piaggio, the company which makes the world famous Vespa. In MAIN, professors, researchers and PhD students combine their expertise to increase the opportunities for cross-fertilisation. Most MAIN members have a management background, and their
individual specialisations cover a wide range of topics, ranging from management of technology, to finance, accounting and international relations.
