Piemonte Region: R&D and Innovation,
driver for investment attraction in high value added sectors
10th
December 2008 - Italian
Institute of Culture, 39 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8NX
09.15
09.30 Delegate
Registration & Welcoming
Coffee
09.30
09.35
Welcoming Address
from
Leonardo Simonelli Santi, President - Italian
Chamber of Commerce and Industry for the UK
09.35
09.50 Introduction to the Seminar
Prof.
Salvator Roberto Amendolia, Scientific Attachè - Italian Embassy
in London
09.50
10.10 Piemonte
Region at the forefront in innovation and the attraction
of investments
Dott.
Federico Zardi, Local and Institutional Relations ,Project Manager,
Invest in
Torino Piemonte
10.10
10.30
The Regional
Investment
Contract: the innovative financial support for foreign investors
Dott.
Gianfranco Di Salvo, Regional Investment Contract, Project
Manager,
Invest in Torino Piemonte
10.30
10.50 Politecnico
di Torino : Partner
for Innovation and R&D Activities
Prof.
Enrico Macii, Vice Rector for EU Affairs, Politecnico di Torino
Prof. Aldo Viarengo, Head
of Mathematics,
Physics and Natural Sciences Faculty
11.10
11.40 Coffee
break & Networking
11.40
12.00 Applied
Research and Development
Partnerships: The Istituto
Superiore Mario Boella
Ing.
Edoardo Calia – Director ,
Research Laboratories – ISMB
12.00
12.20 The
Biotech Sector in Piemonte: Activities and Success of the
Bioindustry Park
Dott.
Fabrizio Conicella, Managing Director, Bioindustry Park Canavese
12.20
12.40 Renewable
Energies & Hydrogen: the activities of the Environment
Park
Dott.
Davide Damosso, R&D Director, Environment Park
12.40
13.00
13.30 Questions and Answers
13.30
Piemonte Region: R&D and
Innovation,
driver for investment attraction in high value added sectors
10th
December 2008 - Italian
Institute of Culture, 39 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8NX
Delegate List
|
Adrot-Castorina |
Alexandra |
Castaldi
Mourre & Partners |
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Amendolia |
Salvator
Roberto |
Scientific
AttachŽ - Italian Embassy in London |
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Beith |
Brendan |
Interactivedata |
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Bennett |
Robert |
Technesium
TC |
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Bonny |
Umeadi
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Bruccoleri |
Tommaso |
Journalist |
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Calia |
Edoardo
|
Istituto
Superiore Mario Boella |
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Carcascio |
Stefano |
Banca
d'Italia |
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Casalino |
Corrado |
Intesa
SanPaolo |
|
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Ciardelli |
Luca
|
Allied
Irish Bank |
|
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Clarke |
Dominic |
Perpetual
Energy |
|
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Coda |
Pierpaolo |
Unicredit |
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Colombotti |
Carlo |
S.J.
Berwin |
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Conicella |
Fabrizio |
Bioindustry
Park Canavese |
|
|
Cooper
|
Olivia |
Gregory
Rowcliffe Milners |
|
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Curley |
Peter |
Imprimatur
Capital |
|
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Damosso |
Davide
|
Environment
Park |
|
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Dauppe |
Victor |
MacIntyre
Hudson LLP |
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Di
Salvo |
Gianfranco |
Invest
in Torino Piemonte |
|
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Ellis |
Michael |
CLS
Communication |
|
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Enegren |
Nina
|
City
Gate |
|
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Fianco |
Christian |
Italian
Chamber of Commerce and Industry for the UK |
|
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Gardner |
Chris
|
City
Gate |
|
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Garofalo |
Paolo |
Banca
d'Italia |
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Girgenti |
Helen
|
Italian
Chamber of Commerce and Industry for the UK |
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Gonggrijp-Bello |
Monique |
Interactivedata |
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Gorniak |
Peter |
Semefab
(Scotland) Ltd |
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Halladay |
Casey |
Studio
Legale Amorese |
|
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Iodice |
Caterina |
Gregory
Rowcliffe Milners |
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Khan |
Farooq |
Syedain |
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Kumar |
Arun |
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Kuzsel |
Joe
|
Rasini
Vigano Ltd |
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Laffineur
Petracchini |
Gherardo |
Espirito
Santo Financial Group |
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Liotta |
Alessandro |
Pillsbury
Law |
|
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Lloyd |
Douglas
|
VB
Research |
|
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Macii |
Enrico
|
Politecnico
di Torino |
|
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Mancuso |
Salvatore |
Journalist |
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Martin
|
Kemp |
Nanotechnology
KTN |
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Mastrocola |
Valentina |
Italian
Chamber of Commerce and Industry for the UK |
|
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Minasi |
Claudio |
The
International Property Law Centre |
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Neale |
Thomas |
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Ohrn |
Caroline |
VB
Research |
|
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O'Neill
|
Michael
|
Eolas
Biosciences Ltd |
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Palomeque |
Julio |
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Pietrangeli |
Lazzaro |
Journalist |
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Presenti
|
Carlo |
Italian
Cultural Institute |
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Sangiuolo |
Simona |
Giambrone
Law |
|
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Simonelli |
Leonardo |
Italian
Chamber of Commerce and Industry for the UK |
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Tondini |
Luca
|
Rasini
Vigano Ltd |
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Vedam |
Hiran |
NanoConsulting
Pte. Ltd. |
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Vento |
Cosma |
Giambrone
Law |
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Vento |
Serena |
Klessi |
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Vergara
Caffarelli |
Filippo |
Banca
d'Italia |
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Viarengo |
Aldo
|
Universitˆ
degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale |
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Walker |
Barry |
Italian
Chamber of Commerce and Industry for the UK |
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Weaver |
Simona
Francesca |
The
International Property Law Centre |
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Webber |
Ricky |
CellAntenna |
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Zardi |
Federico |
Invest
in Torino Piemonte |
Proceedings and
presentations of the seminar will be later published on the Italian
Chamber of
Commerce & Industry for the UK website.
Biographies
& Work Place
LEONARDO SIMONELLI SANTI
Leonardo Simonelli was
born in Siena in
1939. Following a First Class Honours
degree in
Physics and Chemistry, post-graduate studies included Research
Associate
Fulbright Scholarship at Sanford and Illinois Universities, a business
administration course at Illinois University and IBJ Tokyo and a MA
from
Birbeck College.
In
1969 he was appointed Adviser to IMI Istituto Mobiliare Italiano for
the
financing of applied research projects and the setting up of the
research
department. In 1972 he was a
Foreign Department Officer based in Brussels and in 1973 was made
responsible
for the Export Credit Department in Rome.
In 1977 he became Chairman of IMIÕs UK subsidiary, and in
1984 was
responsible for IMIÕs International Division.
In
1986 he established Etrufin Reserco Limited in the City of London where
he
continues to be Managing Director. Etrufin offered financial services
and
representation to Italian regional banks.
He
was elected President of Finest in 1993, an Italian financial services
company
specialising in Central and Eastern Europe. His
term of office expired in April 1999. He
was Chairman of the International Savings
Banks in London from 1989-91 And Director of many Italian and
international
companies (including I.I.C.Y., Interfund, Fonditalia and INSUD).
He
served as Vice-President of the Italian Chamber of Commerce and
Industry for
the UK during the years 1986-94 and was appointed President in 1994. Additionally, in 1999 he was elected
Director of Assocamerestero, Rome.
He
is President of Simonelli Santi Co SpA and in 2005 was appointed to the
Board
of Directors of Monte dei Paschi Banca Personale and Fondazione San
Martino,
The Vatican.
He
is the author of numerous publications in Italian, American and British
journals and participated in various conferences relating to
international
trade and its financing with a specialist view on East-West relations.
In
1997 he was nominated Grand Ufficiale all'ordine al merito della
Repubblica
Italiana and in 2005 he became a Freeman of the City.
Married
with 3 children, his main leisure interests are tennis and shooting.
Professor SALVATOR ROBERTO
AMENDOLIA
Scientific
Attach�è at the Italian Embassy in London since March 2005. Full
Professor of
Physics at the University of Sassari, Italy. He worked since 1971 as
High
Energy physicist, carrying out research and leading experimental teams
at the
largest particle accelerator laboratories in Europe and in the US. The
activities included the discovery of the raising proton-proton
cross-section,
the measure of the charmed mesons lifetimes, the discovery of the top
quark in
1997. Since 1993 he has also worked in the field of applications of
High Energy
Physics technologies to Bio-medicine (in particular, innovative
techniques for
PET and Computed Tomography, for data handling, for image processing).
He has
been promoter and manager of several national and European projects,
including
the industrial development of a solid-state high-resolution mammography
unit, the
application of physics simulation methods to economics, the creation of
Grid-enabled medical-knowledge databases for research and healthcare.
Between
2001 and 2004 he has lead the Promotion Section of the Technology
Transfer
Group of CERN (European Laboratory for Particle Physics) in Geneva.
DOTT. FEDERICO ZARDI
Federico Zardi has
been working as a Project Manager for Local and Institutional relations
at
Piemonte Agency for Investments, Export and Tourism, Torino, Italy
since July
2007. Within the Inward Investment Unit he is in charge of the Local
team and
coordinates activities ranging from location proposals, introduction to
local
and regional subjects and pre-feasibility studies.
Previous work
experience. From 1999 to 2007 he worked for ITP – the first regional
agency dedicated to Foreign Direct Investment attraction – with
responsibilities in the real estate area (special projects in real
estate as
well as tourism) and headed ITP Regional Network of the chambers of
commerce.Moreover he
has gained experience in event
organization working for a multimedia and event production company as
well as two
real estate companies. He also participated in urban planning
competitions both
national and international and in town planning in Piemonte with
particular
reference to socio-economic issues. Other activities concern teaching
territorial marketing for post-graduate courses and writing papers on
ÓUrbanistica
InformazioniÓ and Òinternational PropertyÓ.
He holds a degree in
urban planning at Politecnico di Torino – Faculty of Architecture - and
an MBA from Alma Graduate School - University of Bologna.
DOTT. GIANFRANCO DI
SALVO
Gianfranco Di Salvo
has been working as Project Manager for the Regional Investment
Contract, at
Piemonte Agency for Investments, Export and Tourism since July 2007.
Within the
Inward Investment Unit, he is responsible for the Regional Investment
Contract
Office, managing all the procedures about funding, negotiating,
assisting,
evaluating and monitoring companyÕs investment projects financed
with the Regional
Investment Contract, supported by a skilled multidisciplinary team of
professionals.
Previous
experiences.
From 2005 to 2007 he
worked for ITP – the first regional agency dedicated to Foreign Direct
Investment attraction – as Business Development Advisor, and he has
been
involved in several important investment projects such as General
Motors
Powertrain, Huawei Technologies, Eutelsat, JAC and other. During this
experience he has been responsible for the econometric-multisectorial
Analisys
of FDIs in Piedmont.
From 2003 to 2005 he
has been Regional Manager for the most important Italian private
Guarantee
Provider, Unionfidi, managing the team for Finance and Credit
consultancy. In
the same period, he has been member of the Steering Committee of
Unionetica,
the regional public fund for social and cooperative systems.
From 1998 to 2003 he
worked as Financial Advisor and Team Manager at Eurofidi, the largest
European
Guarantee Provider, gaining a full and wide experience in Financial
Advisory
and large-projects management.
Gianfranco Di Salvo
holds a degree in Business and
Economics, and a Master in Corporate Finance from the University of
Turin.
Prof. ALDO VIARENGO
Aldo Viarengo is a full Professor in Ecology at the
University of Piemonte orientale ÒA. AvogadroÓ
(Alessandria, Italy). Didactic
activity: Aldo Viarengo teaches
Ecological Risk Assessment and Monitoring Systems at the university
course in
Environmental Sciences.
From
2007, Aldo Viarengo is Dean of the Faculty of Sciences MFN, University
of
Piemonte Orientale ÒA. AvogadroÓ (Alessandria,
Italy).
He is
Responsible
of the Reference Centre of the UNEP–MAP (United Nations Environmental
Programme–Marine Action Plan) for the Biomonitoring Program of the
Mediterranean Region (MEDPOL) for the study of pollutant-induced
biological
effects.
Aldo
Viarengo is
Scientific Manager of ATF (Association ÒAmbiente, Territorio e
FormazioneÓ),
whose activity is focused on analyzing and studying environmental
problems in
the oriental Piedmont area.
He is
founder partner
and actual Vice–President of the SETAC–Italian Branch (Society of
environmental toxicology and chemistry): within the activities of the
Society
he coordinates the group working on Ecological Risk Assessment.
He is
Member of the
Scientific Board of the ESCPB (European Society for Comparative
Physiology and
Biochemistry), in which he is Responsible of the sector Environment and
Pollution.
He is
Member of the
Editorial Board of the international scientific journals
ÒComparative
Biochemistry and Physiology–Section ToxicologyÓ, ÒMarine
Environmental
ResearchÓ and ÒAquatic ToxicologyÓ.
From
2004, Aldo
Viarengo is Responsible of the workpackage 3.4 (Molecular mechanisms of
action
in a mixture of toxic substances) of the VI-FP NoMIRACLE project (Novel
Methods
for Integrated Risk Assessment of Cumulative Stressors in Europe)
focusing on
genomic, proteomic and metabolic.
From
2008, Aldo
Viarengo is involved in the activities of the VII-FP MEECE project
(Marine
Ecosystem Evolution in a Changing Environment).
Dott. FABRIZIO CONICELLA
conicella@bioindustrypark.it
General
Manager
Ing. EDOARDO
CALIA
Edoardo Calia
graduated from Politecnico di Torino in Electronics Engineering, and he
obtained his PhD from the same institution in 1992. His background is
in Internetworking
and IP routing protocols, and his first research activities were in the
field
of parallel and distributed architectures and systems.
In 2001 he joined
Istituto Superiore Mario Boella (ISMB), an applied research center
created as a
joint initiative of Politecnico di Torino and the banking foundation
Compagnia
di San Paolo and focused on wireless technologies and applications.
Edoardo
Calia is currently Director of Research at ISMB: in this position he is
in
charge of coordinating all research activities, and of establishing and
maintaining cooperation relationships with other research institutions
on a
national and international basis.
Among the most
recent achievement of ISMB international cooperation activities are the
establishment of a joint research lab with UCLA (USA) on wireless
technologies
applied to the vehicular communications, and one with the Hokkaido
University
(Japan) on advanced multimedia applications to safety and entertainment.
Prof. ENRICO MACII
Enrico Macii
is a Full Professor of Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Torino,
Torino,
Italy.
Prior to
that, he was an Associate Professor (from 1998 to 2001) and an
Assistant
Professor (from 1993 to 1998) at the same institution. From 1991 to
1995 he was
also an Adjunct Faculty at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He
holds a
Dr. Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering from Politecnico di Torino, a
Dr. Sc.
degree in Computer Science from Universitˆ di Torino and a PhD degree
in
Computer Engineering from Politecnico di Torino. Since year 2007, he is
the
Vice Rector for EU Affairs at Politecnico di Torino, and a Member of
the
RectorÕs Advisory Board.
His research
interests are in the design automation of digital circuits and systems,
with
particular emphasis on low-power design aspects. In the fields above,
he has
authored over 300 scientific publications. He is the Editor-in-Chief of
the
IEEE Transactions on CAD/ICAS for the term 2006-2007. Prior to that, he
was an
Associate Editor for the same journal (1997-2005) and an Associate
Editor for
the ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (2000-
2005).
He was the Technical Program Co-Chair (in 1999) of the IEEE Alessandro
Volta Memorial
Workshop on Low Power Design, the Technical Program Co-Chair (in 2000)
and the General
Chair (in 2001) of the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power
Electronics and Design (ISLPED), the General Chair (in 2003) and the
Technical
Program Chair (in 2004) of the IEEE PATMOS Workshop, the General
Co-Chair (in
2007) and the Technical Program Co- Chair (in 2008) of the ACM/IEEE
Great Lakes
Symposium on VLSI (GLS-VLSI). Enrico Macii is a Fellow of the IEEE. He
was an
Elected Member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Circuits and
Systems
Society for two consecutive terms of duty (2002-2004 and 2005-2007).
Università
degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale ÒAmedeo Avogadro
Research
Departments
faculty
of economics
Business
Management and Territorial Development (SIT)
The
Department
represents the most updated interaction between economic, law and
territorial
studies. Its uniqueness attracts the attention of local institutions,
which the
Department cooperates with, on tourism management and promotion issues,
development plans, technology transfer and quality brand use.
Economic
Sciences
and Quantitative Methods (SEMeQ)
The
members of this
Department are Economists, Mathematicians and Statisticians. Research
fields
include: labour, monetary, public, regional economics, econometrics,
dynamical
systems, games, general equilibrium, finance, mathematical, functional
and
medical statistics, customerÕs satisfaction.
faculty
of
pharmacy
Chemical,
Food,
Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences (DiSCAFF)
The
research
activities embrace most fields of pharmaceutical analysis, from the
discovery
and characterization of novel molecular targets to pharmaceutical
delivery.
Critical mass and expertise in food sciences also constitutes one o the
strengths of the department. Its recent development also reflects the
revolution occurring in biology and chemistry that benefits from new
research
approaches.
faculty
of law
Law and
Economics
(DiSGE)
Its
activity spans
the main fields of law knowledge and economic research with their
interactions.
The former involve historical, philosophical, transnational and
comparative
studies, as long as the current issues of the Italian procedural and
substantive law; the latter consider cognitive and experimental
economics,
political economy and finance.
faculty
of
humanities
Humanities
The
huge research
activity of this Department covers several fields: linguistics and
literature,
philosophical and theoretical perspectives, communication sciences,
cultural
heritage processes, historical and social issues, archaeological and
artistic
studies, cultural assets management.
faculty
of medicine
and surgery
Clinical
and
Experimental Medicine
Its
mission is to
transfer medicine knowledge from the molecular field to the clinical
research.
As the human genome sequencing has been completed, next step is to
organise the
new genomic data and high-throughput technologies for studying new
diagnosis
and treatments of human diseases.
Medical
Sciences
All the
main
biomedical fields are studied by the members of this Department, which
constantly interacts with the Hospital of Novara. The current research
issues
span physiopathological and genetic mechanisms of degenerative and
autoimmune
diseases, endocrinological investigation, oncology and applied clinics.
faculty
of
mathematics, physics and natural sciences
Advanced
Technology and Sciences (DiSTA)
This
Department
includes a vast number of scientific studies among mathematics,
chemistry,
physics, computer and materials science. This variety of competences
stimulates
the development of cross-disciplinary groups and projects which in turn
cooperate with national and international laboratories.
Computer
Science
It
covers various
research fields: artificial intelligence (machine learning, automatic
reasoning, knowledge representation, medical informatics), computer
networks
(QoS, security, computer forensics), system modelling for performance
and
dependability evaluation, multimedia systems, data compression
algorithms,
programming language semantics and logics.
Environment
and
Life Sciences (DiSAV)
The
Department is
involved in interdisciplinary research programmes such as ERA
(Ecological Risk
Assessment), development of chemical and biological remediation
technologies as
well as safety and quality of agricultural products and food.
Eco-compatible
hydrogen fuel cells and plastic polymers are also studied.
faculty
of
political science
Public
Policy and
Public Choice (POLIS)
According
to RePEC
(Research Papers in Economics), the Department ranks among the top 10%
economic
institutions in Italy and among the top 5% in the EU. Research spans
Economics,
Statistics, Political Science, History and Law. The Department brings
out
approx. 25 working papers per year and is very active on the
international
scene.
Social
Research
Its
activity spans
local development and tourism, social and gender inequality, migration,
social
policy, family issues and addiction with the financial support of
Italian and
European bodies. It heads the ÒPiedmont Advanced Logistic
Integrated ObjectiveÓ
which involves university departments, logistics and ICT firms.
Bioindustry Park del Canavese
Life sciences and particularly
biotech are an incredible opportunity for
growth. Start-ups and academic
spin off are at the core of a complex system that include universities,
research institutions, services providers, medium size companies and
big
multinational corporations. In this perspective the moment of passage
from
University to industrial environment seems particularly important.
As
Bioindustry Park (www.bioindustrypark.eu)
we tried to develop an integrated approach to support the exploitation
of
scientific resutls based on the assumption that only the realization of
a
dedicated value network will permit the start-up of successful
companies and
the exploitation of scientific results through Technology Transfer. The
BioIndustry Park Canavese (Piemonte region – Italy) approach consists
of
a public/private system. 64,77% of the shares are held publicly, while
35,23%
of the shares are in private hands.
There are participating industries, participating public
authorities,
participating research centers, a venture capital partner, and
national/international partners. The activities of the Park are focused
on
general services for tenants (around 35 different organisations) and
third
parties; exploitation of scientific results through R&D and
technology
transfer; support for start-up companies through an incubation function
and the
Piemonte Bioscience initiative.
There
is a stepwise approach to create value around scientific results:
(1)
identify
promising scientific results
(2)
create
value around scientific results
(3)
exploit
results
(4)
technology
transfer
(5)
maybe start
up a new company
To
identify scientific results they use a scouting method in university to
identify results with a good immediate application potential. It also
offers IP
support and may result in a research and feasibility study to assess
the
exploitation potential. Activities are based on a double approach:
From one side DISCOVERY project
is
completely focused on the company creation. It is
based on a physical facility, the Bioincubator; an
integrated package of support and coaching services and the involvement
of
Eporgen Venture, a specialised seed capital providing company. It is an
attempt
to match the role of public administration to create a positive
environment
with the role of private world that is to create and develop growing
private
companies. In this perspective Discovery is based on a partnership
approach
where the support
system is composed by independent actors
that
are sharing the same strategic vision. Bioindustry Park in this system
is
acting as a real System Integrator that enable the use of synergies
between
public initiatives focused on the
creation of a ÒpositiveÓ environment
and private money that is used to create innovative companies..
In the
last 3 years starting for a sound scouting methodology, the involvement
of
international expert in the selection, the support to the creation of a
seed
capital projects and the completion of the physical incubator and the
support
system the initiative created in 2 different steps 11 different
innovative
companies: 9 are physically located inside the incubator, 3 are hosted
in other
part of the science park. In 2 more cases, not located inside the
incubator,
the Discovery initiative started Òvirtual incubationÓ
activities. All the
projects are based on or are working with universities and public
research
centers.
From a
second side I-Techplat
is a
biotech ÒTech Transfer machineÓ that, starting from the
selection of promising
results in Universities and passing through patenting of innovative
technologies, ends with the creation of economic value around
scientific
results. Two motors, one scientific and one financial, allow this
engine to run
efficiently: the first lies in a strong network of 12 departments in 4
different universities; the second is based on a public/private
partnership,
where public resources create the enabling environment and private
money
supports the real exploitation of results, after the industrial proof
of
concept. To foster the way out of I-TechplatÕs R&D projects,
start-ups
(mainly through the Discovery initiative) and established companies
from the
local cluster are directly involved in the process.
Are now available around 10 results of such initiative
available for technology transfer and out licence e.g. in the field of :
á
biomarkers
discovery for diagnosis and therapy in the field of oncology (breast
and
ovarian cancer), CNS (ALS) and cardiovascular.
á
new apparatus nanomachine
radiocontrol and hyperthermia induction. 6 patents are now available
for
transfer in an industrial context
á
new
methodologies for MALDI Imaging
á
Molecular
Target in oncology
The same platform is offering
scientific
services in proteomics, Molecular Biology and chemistry to the
companies of the
area.
At local level the Park is also
at the core
of a clustering process (Innovation cluster initiative) that will link
Biotech
and med-tech.
The system is completed by an
international
network of partnership agreements with cross-border regions (BioAlpine
Cluster)
and with 4 other bio-incubators in Italy, Spain, Israel Tunisia and USA.
Target audience: technology
transfer
experts and consultants; start-up/spin-off experts and consultants;
Incubators
expert and consultants; Policy makers, scientists, Business development
manager
of Biotech and Pharma companies.