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Urban digitalization
& new services
About Area
Urban digitalization and new services drive smarter, more resilient cities by integrating design, technology, and security solutions. From enhancing citizen engagement to upgrading infrastructure, this area fosters innovation while ensuring privacy and safety for all.
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DesignTech
Designtech is an innovation hub, at the heart of the Italian design court, that brings together under one roof a powerful cohort of innovators and industry to promote open innovation programs integrating startups that want to accelerate their growth and industry leaders in search of innovation.
Icona Design
Icona Design Group is an Italian design company founded in 2010. Their business focuses on design, engineering, and prototyping. Their mission has always been to imagine the shape of the future, sense evolution, anticipate change, open new scenarios, and inaugurate new trends.
ELT Group
Italian company world leader in Electronic Warfare.
Fabrick
Fabrick is a European pioneer in Open Finance. Headquartered in Milan and with offices in London, Madrid, Zurich and Dubai, it operates internationally to enable innovative services in Open Finance by supporting the collaboration of fintechs, businesses and financial institutions.
Sicuritalia Group
Sicuritalia is the leading Company in Italy of the Security Sector, for size, rate of growth, economic and financial indicators. The Group works closely with the most important companies in Industry, Banking, Commercial and Public Administration, offering a range of integrated services for Security and Facility Management.
Tim
TIM is the leading ICT group in Italy and Brazil, placing itself at the forefront of digital technologies.
Valore Italia
Valore Italia is an international training and research center for the restoration and enhancement of cultural heritage. The beating heart is the Botticino School of Restoration, one of the top schools for restoration at a national level.
Accenture
“Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and Consulting, Interactive, Technology and Operations services—all powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers.”
Alira Health
“Alira Health is a global healthcare firm whose mission is to humanize healthcare and life sciences in partnership with patients. We provide consulting and clinical services enabled by technology and real-world evidence. From development to medical care, we complement the expertise of our Pharma, Biotech, and MedTech clients with a full spectrum of services across their entire solutions lifecycle.”
AstraZeneca
“AstraZeneca is a global biopharmaceutical company focused on scientific research, development and marketing of ethical drugs for the treatment of oncological, cardiovascular, renal, metabolic, infectivology, respiratory and immunological diseases. AstraZeneca operates in over 100 countries and its drugs are used by millions of patients around the world.”
Bio4Dreams
“Bio4Dreams S.p.A. is a certified incubator of innovative startups in the field of Life Sciences & Healthcare.”
Bracco
“Bracco is an international Group active in the healthcare sector and a leader in contrast agents production and distribution for medical diagnostic imaging.”
Medtronic
“Providing innovative care for a more sustainable and inclusive health system is our priority. Our technologies and solutions can make a difference for people and healthcare systems facing today’s most challenging issues—such as rising healthcare costs, an aging population, and the burden of chronic diseases. But we do not intend to do this alone: we are committed to collaborating in new ways to make innovation truly extraordinary."
Nippon Gases Italia
“Nippon Gases is a historic company, one of the first in Italy to operate in the industrial gases sector. Founded in 1920, it is now part of Nippon Gases Europe, a company that belongs to Nippon Sanso Holdings Corporation (NSHD), a large international company with more than 100 years of experience in the gas industry.”
Novartis
“Novartis is reimagining medicine to improve and extend people’s lives. As a leading global medicines company, we use innovative science and digital technologies to create transformative treatments in areas of great medical need. In our quest to find new medicines, we consistently rank among the world’s top companies investing in research and development.”
Roche
“Founded in 1896 in Basel, Switzerland, as one of the first industrial manufacturers of branded medicines, Roche has grown into one of the world’s largest biotechnology companies and the global leader in in-vitro diagnostics. The company pursues scientific excellence to discover and develop medicines and diagnostics for improving and saving the lives of people around the world. We are a pioneer in personalised healthcare and want to further transform how healthcare is delivered to have an even greater impact. To provide the best care for each person we partner with many stakeholders and combine our strengths in Diagnostics and Pharma with data insights from the clinical practice.”
Sapio Life
“Sapio, the 100th years company, has been active in the healthcare sector since 1989, with services and technologies for homecare, hospitals and research. Highly specialized professionals work in Italy and Europe to create a sustainable healthcare system for the future."
Stevanato Group
“Stevanato Group is a leading global provider of drug containment, drug delivery and diagnostic solutions to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and life sciences industries.”
Synlab
“SYNLAB offers a full range of medical diagnostic and ambulatory services for practising doctors, clinics and patients. SYNLAB is the uncontested leader on the European market for human medicine laboratory services.”
UCB Pharma
“UCB is a biopharmaceutical company with headquarters in Belgium, in Brussels and with an Italian headquarters in Milan, focused on developing innovative solutions to transform the lives of people living with severe immunological and neurological diseases.”
E4Life
“E4life is a joint venture formed by ELT Group and Lendlease with the aim of developing and commercializing devices based on innovative e4shieldtm technology to fight viruses in the air and ensure people's safe social life. Our products can inactivate more than 90% of airborne viruses almost instantly, ensuring the well-being of a safe social life for everyone.”
Innovation Agenda
Agrifood Tech & Wellbeing
Develop and share a value-based implementation model to deliver innovation that supports people living longer and healthier lives with focus on last mile and involvement of multiple stakeholdersExperiment on specific pathological conditions where to develop and test a patient-based journey approach (early diagnosis and treatements, precision medicine, chronic disease, home-care services)Build up a holistic patient-centric modular and scalable data platform (regional area) to provide multiple services from clinical research to telemedicine applications including patient monitoring for disease prevention and safety. Interactions with other collaborative ecosystems at national, European and international level.Re-design processes and products (e.g. re-use / recycle syringes and relevant packaging)” through integration of Circular Economy principles.
Strategic domains
Matteo Tarantino
Ambassador
“The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city.“
~ D. Harvey
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