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Last update
05.11.2011
This site has been build up in the frame of development
of activities of the cultural association LA STORIA NEL FUTURO ® in order
to promote technology innovation in the small and medium Italian firms and particularly
in industries belonging to the industrial clusters of this country. The Italian
industrial structure, composed predominantly by small and medium enterprises,
is a difficult ground to develop radical technological innovations characterized
by large diffusion and important competitive advantages. It is our conviction
that these objectives may be reached promoting the introduction of new technologies,
such as nanotechnology or microelectronics, in the traditional “Made in
Italy” products. These products have conquered many markets and their radical
innovation would be able to easily maintain and develop already acquired positions.
It is also our conviction that these objectives may be more easily reached promoting
cooperation among firms in research & development projects in favorable
local industrial agglomerations, such as industrial districts, in which industries
have common technologies, products and markets.
This site makes available to people interested in research and promotion of
technology innovation working documents, publications, presentations, reports
and books generated by experiences and studies carried out in particular in
the industrial districts existing in the provinces of Novara, Brescia and Verbano-Cusio-Ossola
starting from the mid of ’90. Beside specific arguments in technology innovation,
other topics have been treated concerning relations between technologies and
environment or education, for the importance they have in research & development,
also making available educational material developed for this purpose. The documents
are grouped in the site following three sections:
TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION
TECHNOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT
EDUCATION AND RESEARCH