INNOVA Coaching the Business plan competition within the Barcelona Mobile Applications Forum, Barcelona (Spain), 17-18 June 2010

21 June 2010

Aleardo FURLANI, CEO of INNOVA, coached along side Mr. Conor Neill  from the IESE Business School, a business plan competition within the Barcelona Mobile Applications Forum held in Barcelona on 17 & 18 June 2010.

The Mobile Applications Forum is the first of a series of digital media events custom-tailored to the needs of enterprises in the Creative Industries. The Mobile Apps Forum was highly successful notwithstanding the concomitance of two major events in Barcelona: the HIT, World Innovation Summit and the Mobile 2.0 Congress.

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INNOVA appointed service provider for INNOVHUB

06 June 2010

INNOVA has been appointed service provider for INNOVHUB, the special Agency for Innovation of the Chamber of Commerce of Milan (Italy),  to promote Technology Transfer to small and medium sized companies.

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New offices for Innova Consulting Group in Boston, USA

01 June 2010

INNOVA's branch in the US, the Innova Consulting Company Group (ICG Inc) has recently acquired new offices in Boston. The new offices are ideally situated in the financial and business district in Boston in proximity of pretigious universities and research centers such as The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Northeastern University, and the Massachusetts General Hospital Research center.

Training Course for local players and policy makers in Cairo, Egypt, May 2010

30 May 2010

Within a large scale training course organized by the international training division of the Italian Institute for Foreign Trade (ICE)  in Cairo running from  April  18^th to June 7^th -2010 on the theme of “Business Internationalisation” for local players and public officials, Tommaso  FOGLIA, Manager of the  Nanotechnologies & Biotechnologies Department at INNOVA,  adressed topics on the strategic meaning of innovation; from Innovation to technology transfer; matching technology and strategy; European Funding schemes; R&D projects funded under FP7 and technology transfer models.

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RAF-Regions Project selected among RDC Success Stories!

17 May 2010

The RAF-Regions project has been selected among Research Driven Clusters success stories by the trans-national network of the National Contact Points for the European "Regions of Knowledge" programme. The aim of the Network is to support regional stakeholders in enhancing science and technology based development and to provide high quality services to regional authorities, research institutions and enterprises on the opportunities offered by FP7 to boost innovation for economic and social growth.

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Visit the FEMAG innovation online, the technology developed by LABOR, the INNOVA Group's industrial Laboratory, to be showcased at the Shangai World Expo

06 May 2010

Along with the opening of the Universal Exposition in Shanghai, also begins the fabulous adventure of Italian Innovators.

From May 4^th,  www.italianvalley.it is online, the website dedicated to Italy’s talents and innovative ideas, developed by Wired Magazine, the Group Condenast, in collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Public Administration and Innovation.

ItalianValley exposes the 265 innovations selected by the 'Italy of Innovators", created conjointly by the Ministry and the Italian Commissioner for the Exhibition of Shanghai.

The Innova Group will be present at the Shangai expo showcasing FEMAG, the Flexible Ecological Multipurpose Advanced Generator, integrated in the car of the future developed by LABOR, the Group's applied and engineering Laboratory. See the demo:

Encourage the excellence of italian innovation and vote for the FEMAG Innovation by clicking on the stars above the video here.

The italian valley website will continue to be a showcase and a database of Italian technological creativity after the Expo 2010.

University of Udine studies INNOVA's Best Practices: A degree Theses on Open Innovation explores INNOVA's Model

25 April 2010

INNOVA and Area Science Park, one of the main Italian technological and scientific parks, were the subject of a comparative study carried out for a degree thesis at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Udine.

The work was focused on the investigation of the most advanced approaches and tools fostering the Open Innovation paradigm: the case study of INNOVA was of particular interest since INNOVA applies Open Innovation methods and polices  both internally, for itself, and externally, for its customers, acting as a real “Innovation broker” through a wide-spread of different services and competencies.
The study was carried out over a 12 months period by Mr. Manuele Annoè that was granted  summa cum laude on this graduation thesis.

"Plan and Manage a science park in the Mediterranean", a guidebook for decision makers now available!

25 April 2010

The guidebook is the result of the cooperation between the European Investment Bank, the World Bank, Medibitikar and the City of Marseille including important contributions  by INNOVA Group experts: Aleardo FURLANI (CEO INNOVA), Rebeca LUCAS (INNOVA Senior expert) and Ikbel TLILI (expert INVENT).

This guidebook provides science park decision makers with a number of tools helping them manage a park. A number of strategic options are presented, and in this respect the guidebook can assist the decision making process. It can also help to benchmark a park with parks in other countries.

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Beingrid project: "Rapid data recording and analysis combats cyber crime"

02 April 2010

 The BEINGRID project partners, among which INNOVA, tracked suspicious money laundering transactions by using cloud computing services. Experts say profit seizure is one way to nab criminals. The problem, however, is that innovative advances in IST have made criminals very tech savvy. Figures show that billions of transactions occur in banks each week and it is becoming a challenge for law enforcers to stop the criminals.

Read more on the EC-Information center- published 25 March 2010

NOCHEMFOOD Project: an INNOVA success story

31 March 2010

After extensive research and testing, the EU-funded NOCHEMFOOD project,  a partnership of SMEs and research institutes of which INNOVA is partner has produced exciting results. Dr Pier Luigi Franceschini, Scientific Coordinator of the Nanotechnologies/Biotechnologies Department at INNOVA, who has followed the project since its launch in august 2006, confirms that the results show that the mixture of natural vegetable extracts performed as effectively as their chemical counterparts.

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INNOVA's seed capital Company, INVENT, participates in a new start-up: MediaKIS Ltd

29 March 2010

INNOVA's seed capital Company, INVENT SaS, participates in a new maltese Start-up: MediaKIS Ltd. MediaKIS Ltd is aimed at developing tools and services to assist the growth of digital media SMEs operating in the creative industries sector.

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INNOVA at the EU Sustainable Energy Week, 22-26 March, Brussels (Belgium)

29 March 2010

During the EU Sustainable Energy Week, EUROCITIES in partnership with DIGITALEUROPE organized a session around Smart Cities. The session brought together leading experts from the information and communications technology (ICT) sector, cities and researchers to discuss different aspects of making a city "smarter" and future-proof.

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INNOVA welcomes a delegation of industrial players from Cyprus during their study tour in Italy, 12 April 2010

26 March 2010

The  study tour  in Italy, organised by the Italian Trade commission (ICE) is adressed to a delegation of 10 selected industrial players in the agro-food sector from Cyprus, by the local Chamber of Commerce. The focus of the study tour is to exchange views in the fields of industrial districts, technology transfer and research spin-offs.

INNOVA will welcome the delegation from Cyprus at its premises for a presentation of its activities, organization and in-house laboratory highlighting its role as bridge between research and market with a particular focus in the agro-food industry. 

"Marketing technologies and services for innovation" training course, Rome, 5 & 6 May 2010

23 March 2010

Within the framework of the RIDITT Program, the Italian Institute for Industrial Development (IPI) , Aleardo Furlani, CEO of INNOVA’s , has been appointed lecturer to give a 2 day training course in Rome on “Marketing technologies and services for Innovation”.

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INNOVA at the training course on the textile industry at Kunshan, China, 15-20 March 2010

22 March 2010

INNOVA participated to the training course on the textile sector organised by the International Training division of the Italian Institute for Foreign Trade (ICE) in collaboration with the Training Development Board and Sistema Moda Italia. The course, addressed to Chinese entrepreneurs specialized in the textile industry, covered following topics related to the textile, fashion and clothing industry: marketing strategies, innovation and technology transfer, industrial policy as well as and the specific characteristics of the clothing market in Italy.

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BRAVEHEALTH research project inaugural event followed by large number of Stakeholders and health experts, Rome, March 8th -2010

10 March 2010

The inaugural conference of BRAVEHEALTH, a 7 million euros research project financed by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Program held in Rome on March 8th brought together over 80 major stakeholders and health experts under the supervision on the European Commission.

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20 years of research on antibodies become a competitive industrial activity

04 March 2010

Mediapharma s.r.l., an italian  spin-off supported by INNOVA's seed capital company,  INVENT s.a.s, successfully brings the results of 20 years of research on monoclonal antibodies to the pharmaceutical market, a breakthrough for the diagnosis and cancer treatment.

Listen to the interview of Professor Iacobelli transmitted on RAI3 Leonardo News on 25-01-2010 (in italian):

INNOVA Group Technology project selected for the SHANGAI WORLD EXPO 2010

03 March 2010

The Flexible ecological multipurpose advanced generator, integrated in the car of the future has been selected to participate in the Italian pavilion “Italy of Inventors”, imagined as a container of the excellence of our country, at the SHANGAI WORLD EXPO 2010. The innovation has been developed by LABOR Srl, the applied research and engineering laboratory of the INNOVA Group.

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6th INSME Annual Meeting, Rio de Janeiro, 10-13 May, 2010

03 March 2010

The Sixth INSME Association Annual Meeting 2010, of which INNOVA is member,  is being organised by the INSME Association in cooperation with SEBRAE - Brazilian Service of Support for Micro and Small Enterprises in Rio de Janeiro on 10-13 May, 2010.

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Dissemination event on Innovative solutions for energy efficiency in Europe, India and US, Brussels, 25 March, 2010

02 March 2010

 Within the framework of the European project GENESYS and in the context of the European Sustainable Energy week, a workshop is organised focused on the description of the support to innovation in the information technologies for energy efficiency field (ICT4EE).