Knowledge of quantitative and qualitative methods for empirical research in behavioural economics, including survey analysis for consumers and field and laboratory experimental economic analysis; interdisciplinary skills and motivations to create bridges between fields.

Research at UnitelmaSapienza (a young online & distance learning University directly linked to Sapienza University of Rome) is carried out in various Laboratories, Research Centers and Research Groups. The Bioeconomy in Transition Research Group (BiT-RG) is involved in research concerning the emergence of a circular and bio-based economy relying on the use of renewable resources for the production of novel products for various applications.The scientific coordinator of the BiT-RG is Piergiuseppe Morone, Full Professor of Economic Policy at UnitelmaSapienza. The group includes 14 additional members: prof. Donald Huisingh (honorary member), 12 researchers from prestigious Italian and foreign universities and 1 administrative technician from the Management Control and Research Area of the University (professional profiles available at the following link: https://www.Bioeconomy-in-transition.Eu/people/). Most of the BiT-RG research activities are channeled in the Sustainability Transition strategic area: Modern society has a dire need of bringing together economic efficiency, low environmental impact technologies, and alternative feedstocks to conventional fossil fuel and raw materials. This need calls for an efficient management of biomasses. Bearing these facts in mind, a transition from a society heavily based on mass consumption, uncontrolled waste generation, and heavy fossil fuels exploitation toward one based on resource-efficiency, new production and consumption behaviours, waste reduction, reuse, and valorization, seems a desirable and much needed feat. This change involves a paradigm shift, which goes beyond technological change – it involves big societal and institutional changes as much as the development of radically new technologies.