Workshop on “Complexity in Socio-Economic Systems: The Connectivity Approach”

On June 6, 2024, the Accademia delle Scienze dell’Istituto di Bologna hosted a workshop on “Complexity in Socio-Economic Systems: the Connectivity Approach”, coordinated by Ivano Cardinale, Aura Reggiani, and Roberto Scazzieri. The workshop developed research lines addressed in a Special issue of the journal Networks and Spatial Economics (NETS), edited by the workshop coordinators in 2022. The workshop focused on three questions: what are the research perspectives on the architecture of complexity of socio-economic systems; what is the role of the architecture of connectivity in shaping complex subsystem-system dynamics in the socio-economic sphere; which contribution can be expected from a structural connectivity framework in shaping the design and implementation of policies. Keynote lectures by Terry Friesz, Kieran Donaghy and Ariel Wirkierman were followed by general discussion and concluding remarks by Alberto Quadrio Curzio.