Piedmont: Innovation clusters, allocated 50 million for companies – newsbiella.it

After the redefinition of areas of specialization (now become seven) and the identification of new subjects operators, the region offers to tender 50 million available to the participating companies at the poles of Piedmontese innovation.

The Regional Council, on the proposal of Productive Activities, Giuseppina De Santis, has approved the measure to the support of collaborative research and innovation projects in the following seven technology areas: ICT, smart products & amp; manufacturing, green chemistry, agrifood, energy & amp; clean technologies, textile, life sciences. The action aims to increase innovation activity of enterprises through the promotion of investment, the increased collaboration of the industrial system with the research centers, enhancing technology transfer and stimulating demand.

There are two important innovations of the new call for member companies (or who will be joining) the innovation poles. The first is the focus on those projects that meet the needs of innovation of enterprises have to resort to one or more research commissions entrusted to research organizations, public or private (for a minimum percentage of the total project cost is at least 20 per percent). The other innovative aspect is that they request, to the operators of the Poles, to define previously banned a research agenda based on the needs of innovation and on potential projects already found within the Pole, so that the role of the region is to facilitate paths actually oriented to the competitiveness of member companies in Poli feature an advanced level of technological maturity and market-oriented.

“Recently the European Commission – says councilor Giuseppina De Santis – highlighted the innovation capacity of SMEs in Piedmont, which were based on the” Regional Innovation Scoreboad “Best of Italy along with those Friulian. At the same time, however, there is the need for greater collaboration with research organizations, a gap that this call aims to fill. The hope is that the poles are able to aggregate the needs of companies and organize them in planning agendas, structuring actual paths on the basis of technology transfer from the producers of knowledge, ie research centers, to outright manufacturers. A challenging goal, but we have confidence in our system of research and the ability of companies to make this significant leap in quality. ”

The investment projects may not be less than EUR 300 000 (in the case of participation of only SMEs) and to 600 thousand euro (when there are large companies). They will be attended by outside the region within the limit of 15% of expenses. The form of aid is a contribution to expenditure to an extent dependent on the size of enterprise. The subjects of the Poles managers, based on the recent announcement, are: Fondazione Torino Wireless for the pole “ICT”, Center Services Industries Ltd. for the pole “Smart products and manifacturing” (MESAP), Pst-Spa-Consortium Proplast Consortium Ibis ( in ats) for the Green Chemistry pole and advanced materials, MIAC Spa for the “Agrifood” pole, Environment Park-Consortium UN.I.VER (in ats) for the “Energy & amp pole; Clean Technologies, Biella Spa City Studies for the “Textile” pole (POINTEX) and Bioindustry Silvano Fumero Spa for the Life Sciences pole (bioPmed).

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