Recently the Wharton School of Business published an intriguing interview with Riccardo Illy, chairman of Gruppo illy, and Marco Mari of the Italia Innovation Program. The conversation focused on areas of manifested Italian leadership, areas of great potential and areas where more work is needed to bring Italy to the forefront of innovation in a globalized marketplace. The article can be read in full here, or if you're short on time, there are interested excerpts reproduced below.

Riccardo Illy on innovation: "If you don't innovate, you die in an economy which is global and which is more and more intertwined and more and more sophisticated, with consumers that are — let's say, improving their needs continually. In my opinion, the problem of innovation today is that everybody is investing in incremental innovations. And almost nobody is investing in disruptive innovations."

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Source: San Francisco, Italy