The working group, formed in November 2007, including experts from outside the CSS, is coordinated by Andrea Bonaccorsi and Massimiano Bucchi. The Group has the job of defining the scope of a new study committee that is to prepare a White Paper on the topic of interfacing between public sector research and business innovation, providing field operators with stimuli scientifically grounded in the social disciplines, as regards the characteristics of processes by which knowledge is produced, acquired, transformed and disseminated.
The Working Group consists of:

• Anna Maria Ajello

• Piero Bassetti

• Andrea Bonaccorsi

• Massimiano Bucchi

• Mario Calderini

• Aldo Geuna

• Michela Nacci

• Paolo Perulli

• Sergio Ristuccia

• Maurizio Sobrero

Fabio Biscotti is responsible for technical secretarial services
CSS is thus continuing to work on the questions of research, innovation and economic and social development, following on from initiatives already undertaken:

• the Zuliani Commission, which organised a seminar on "Scientific research in Italy: which policies" (Proceedings published in queste istituzioni, 2004) and published the White Paper "The Appraisal of research" (Marsilio, 2006);

• the Berta and Pichierri Commission, which produced the "White Paper for the North West. From a manufacturing economy to a knowledge economy" (Marsilio, 2007)

Works are due to be completed by the end of 2009.