HT.III.D

Giuseppe MARUCCIO
University of Salento
Contamination Lab (CLab) Salento University

• Francesco MATTEUCCI, Roberto GIANNANTONIO - DHITECH S.c.a.r.l.
• Marco ROSSI – Sapienza University of Rome
• Onofrio Antonino CACIOPPO - LFoundry
• Alessandra SANSON - CNR
• Riccardo BARBERI – University of Calabria
• Giuseppe MARUCCIO – University of Salento 
• Sesto VITICOLI - AIRI
• Marco CASAGNI - ENEA

SYNOPSIS

The mismatch between knowledge creation and knowledge exploitation, has been named European Paradox. In order to overcome this paradox, the UE launched the “Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan” with the three main areas of interventions: i) Entrepreneurial education and training to support growth and business creation; ii) Strengthening framework conditions for entrepreneurs by removing existing structural barriers and supporting them in crucial phases of the business lifecycle and iii) Dynamiting the culture of entrepreneurship in Europe, nurturing the new generation of entrepreneurs.

In order to promote an ecosystem of innovation, “environment” with complex relationships between actors or entities whose functional goal is to enable technology development and innovation, many steps are necessary, but one of the main is the organic cooperation between knowledge producers (universities and research institutions), knowledge users (companies operating in the market), other institutions (financial and public) and  intermediaries of knowledge (organizational structures that stimulate the innovation process through a multilingual approach). 

The round table will be divided in two parts: 1) presentation of a model of public-private collaboration in R&D and of a lab where training young students to develop the entrepreneurial spirit, 2) a discussion among different actors of the ecosystem of innovation in order to define a to-do-list action for the development of the Italian ecosystem of innovation within the field of nanotechnologies.