CUEIM - University Consortium for Industrial and Managerial Economics, an Italian non-profit organization, is an open network connecting academic research and know-how coming from public and private organizations. CUEIM was founded in Verona in 1982 on the initiative of Prof. Giovanni Panati, with the aim to create an open network in which the academic, institutional and entrepreneurial components can work together in a complementary and synergic logic. Its fields of expertise include research, provision of services, scientific dissemination and training in the following areas: environment and energy, innovation and smart cities, natural and cultural heritage.