Who we are
TIRESIA
Technology Innovation & REsearch for Social ImpAct
TIRESIA is a research center based in the School of Management of the Polytechnic University of Milan.
Our main research interests and activities include new forms of impact entrepreneurship, social impact measurement, impact finance and inclusive innovation. TIRESIA produces scholarly and practice-oriented research addressing academic, policy and civil society needs. We are also actively engaged in advisory activities for corporations, financial institutions and policy makers.
The School of Management (SoM) of the Polytechnic University of Milan groups together the Graduate School of Business (MIP) and the Department of Management Engineering (DIG). The SOM conducts research, education and consultancy in the field of management.
Vision
TIRESIA offers an innovative and transformative perspective on the purpose-driven economy. We are committed to preserve impact integrity, as we believe that this latter is the key factor to unleashing the impact economy’s transformative power.
In this novel approach, technology and proximity play a crucial and enabling role.
Mission
Tiresia’s mission is to study and interpret the transformations that are deeply changing entrepreneurship, corporations, finance and innovation in the impact economy.
TIRESIA’s hybrid approach combines research, education, advisory and experiential learning. According to MacArthur Foundation, we contributed to establish the Polytechnic University of Milan in the top ten universities providing teaching and research in social impact finance at a global level.
Tiresians
Meet our team and discover people who bring life to our Research Center
TIRESIA empowers people and institutions to most disruptive changes and challenges in social innovation ecosystems. Through research, education, advisory and experiential learning, we enhance the capacity of individuals and organizations to embrace global and innovative solutions to complex societal problems. We consider social business and inclusive economy the powering engine working across sectors, institutions, and disciplines to build new social infrastructure and to foster economic growth.
Polytechnic Ecosystem
Ranked no.1 nationwide, no.24 worldwide (QS WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS 2015)
Largest and oldest technical univesity in Italy, founded in 1863
More than 40.000 Students
12 Specialization departments
1.400 Professors and Lectures
2 main campuses in Milan
5 campuses in northern Italy, 1 China and 1 India
Our collaborations
Ashoka is an international citizen-sector organization whose mission is to build an Everyone a Changemaker World. Ashoka identifies and supports the world’s leading social entrepreneurs, learns from the patterns in their innovations, and mobilizes a global community that embraces these new frameworks to build an “everyone a changemaker world.”
EVPA is a membership association made up of organisations interested in or practicing venture philanthropy and social investment across Europe. The association is a unique network of venture philanthropy organisations and others committed to practicing and promoting high-engagement grant making and social investment in Europe
The “Economy of Francesco” is a worldwide movement of young people who aim to change the current economic models and craft a future that is more inclusive and just. It was convoked by Pope Francis in 2019 when he asked economists and young people to give life to the idea of a different kind of economy, one that is more attentive to the weakest members of society and is not focused exclusively on the gain of material wealth.
https://francescoeconomy.org/it/
The GSG is an independent multilateral steering group catalyzing impact investment and entrepreneurship. Who improves lives and the planet by making impact count.
Feltrinelli Education: a physical and digital platform meant to offer training services for individuals who wish to transform knowledge into something concretely useful, to earn the skills needed to grasp, manage and interpret these changing times.
https://www.feltrinellieducation.it/
Cottino Social Impact Campus is the first campus in Europe exclusively dedicated to the culture of social impact as transformative element of our knowledge and skills, as individuals and organizations.
https://www.cottinosocialimpactcampus.org/
http://ilquintoampliamento.it/en
Our collaborations
Tiresia collaborates and shares knowledge with research centers, foundations, institutions, ….
ASHOKA
Ashoka is an international citizen-sector organization whose mission is to build an Everyone a Changemaker World. Ashoka identifies and supports the world’s leading social entrepreneurs, learns from the patterns in their innovations, and mobilizes a global community that embraces these new frameworks to build an ``everyone a changemaker world.``
EVPA
EVPA is a membership association made up of organisations interested in or practicing venture philanthropy and social investment across Europe. The association is a unique network of venture philanthropy organisations and others committed to practicing and promoting high-engagement grant making and social investment in Europe.
ECONOMY OF FRANCESCO
The “Economy of Francesco” is a worldwide movement of young people who aim to change the current economic models and craft a future that is more inclusive and just. It was convoked by Pope Francis in 2019 when he asked economists and young people to give life to the idea of a different kind of economy, one that is more attentive to the weakest members of society and is not focused exclusively on the gain of material wealth.
GSG
The GSG is an independent multilateral steering group catalyzing impact investment and entrepreneurship. Who improves lives and the planet by making impact count.
FELTRINELLI EDUCATION
Feltrinelli Education: a physical and digital platform meant to offer training services for individuals who wish to transform knowledge into something concretely useful, to earn the skills needed to grasp, manage and interpret these changing times.
