Carlo Cattaneo University (LIUC) is a private, non-profit, Italian university. It was founded in 1991, by nearly 300 entrepreneurs, as a joint venture among Italian corporations, who provided the initial funding and continued to provide support and guidance under the seal of the Industrial Association of the Province of Varese. The university, housed in a restored nineteenth century cotton mill, is named after Carlo Cattaneo, a nineteenth-century thinker and economist. It is one of the three Italian Universities (together with SDA Bocconi and Università Cattolica) part of the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness’ network teaching Michael Porter’s Microeconomics of Competitiveness graduate class.
