Istituto per la Competitività

Mission & Goals

The Institute for Competitiveness (I-Com) is a think-tank founded in 2005 by a group of scholars, professionals and managers, with offices in Rome and Brussels. The objective of I-Com is to promote debates and analyses on competitiveness concerning innovation, in the Italian, European and international politico-economic contexts. The main areas of interest of I-Com are: digitalization, energy, innovation, health and institutions. Our mission is to provide an input to public debate on the future of the EU system, employing multidisciplinary competences and different tools for in-depth analysis and dissemination, analyzing the contribution of the most important drivers for competitiveness and growth (or lack of) in Italy, in Europe and internationally. I-Com also focuses on the individual factors of competitiveness – digitalization, energy, innovation and institutions – from an integrated perspective.