VIU - Venice International University Professor of Knowledge Economics "Venice International University is an international center of higher education and research which was founded in 1995. On its campus on the Island of San Servolo in Venice, Italy, a community of international professors, researchers and students come together in a young and dynamic environment where they engage in topics common to the undergraduate, graduate and research programs". From the VIU website: LabNet - Laboratorio Network RLN Research Director Laboratorio Network RLN, research company belonging to the North-Eastern Italian system, was born with the aim of analyzing the development of new technologies in the modes of production typical of the Post-Fordist age (industrial districts, networks, communities) in the nowadays knowledge economics. CFMT - Centro di Formazione e Management del Terziario T-Lab Coordinator Through the research team born inside the T-Lab, the CFMT (Centro di Formazione e di Ricerca sul Terziario) studies the new economics of services, focusing in particular on the production and promotion of new ideas in the sector, and on the analysis of the knowledge-economics related aspectcs of services.