Partner

Distretto Tecnologico Sicilia Micro e Nano Sistemi

The Distretto Tecnologico Sicilia Micro e Nano Sistemi is a consortium including Companies, Universities, Research organisations, and Associations representing manufacturing and service companies in Sicily. It represents an intergrated and coherent system of “research-training-innovation” which is meant to support the sustainable economic growth following specific strategic directions: sustainability, aggregation, enhancement and interpretation of the territory, attraction of talents, dexterity, control and monitoring.

The District develops an Open Innovation process based on multiple interactions and interdependencies between research, innovation, development and production.

The high quality of the member companies, together with the excellence of the skills expressed by the knowledge and research system, makes it possible to identify paths of innovation and the consequent validation of solutions, by a public-private system represented in its components at the highest levels of expertise and strategic vision. The District also participates, as a member, in the National Technology Clusters: Alisei (Life Sciences) Smile (Technologies for living environments), Energy, Smart Communities, Smart Factory.

Through its partnership, the District has of the KET’s (Enabling key technologies) to the highest level of competence and strategic vision in order to use and to finalize the destined European deep ones to search, innovation, digital agenda, etc. The Distretto Micro e Nano sistemi also has, through its members, an important and advanced system of laboratories and research facilities.

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Università di Catania

The University of Catania has been engaged for years in activities in support of innovation and technology transfer, which see the active involvement of academic figures of strategic direction, coordination and evaluation, together with the TTO administrative offices of the University.

With an average enrolment of 40,000 students, the University of Catania has been around for hundreds of years since 1434 and is oldest one in Sicily.

The educational system is run and overseen by 17 departments. The Medical School for starters, and by two other educational units respectively located in the city of Ragusa as far as Modern Languages are concerned, and in Syracuse for the School of Architecture.

Another special unit is the Scuola Superiore di Catania, a higher education centre based on excellence that was founded in 1998 for the selection and the recognition of the brightest young minds, offering a variety of studies including analysis, research and experimentation.

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Università degli Studi di Palermo

For over three decades, the University of Palermo has been promoting the processes of entrepreneurial genesis in the course of its third mission activities through business incubation at the ARCA Consortium, the competition of business ideas called StartCup Palermo.

The University is also an activity in the educational field with a Master’s degree curriculum in Entrepreneurship and Management and with the activities of the Contamination Lab. 

The University has set up a spin-off commission to verify the sustainability and development characteristics of the entrepreneurial projects proposed by its teaching and non-teaching staff.

At the moment there are 33 academic spin-offs and 1 with participation of UNIPA in the share capital.

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Università degli Studi di Messina

The Technology Transfer Office (TTO) is the center of technology transfer services of the University of Messina that carries out the activities of dissemination and exploitation of the results of applied research and promotes the connection between University and Business, working in a network with the actors of the research and innovation system.
The TTO has organized its activities in the offices: "Business Creation", "Protection of intellectual property", "Support to design to attract funding".Is aimed at the research system and the entrepreneurial system for the dissemination of innovation. The TTO offers the researcher information, advice and assistance for the protection of intellectual property; transfer and marketing of patent rights and industrial licensing agreements; creation of spin-off companies and promotes the University’s planning on technology transfer issues.

The sector is also aimed at companies that think of innovating to maintain competitiveness and plan a quality development, offering information, advice and assistance to access the research offer of the University of Messina; identify research groups to target for specific needs and with which to collaborate in joint research projects; obtain an analysis of their innovation needs; promote economic development projects; promote partnerships in the training of young researchers; create new companies generated by scientific research; access to analyses and studies for investments in the strait area, in Sicily and in the Mediterranean area.

The Office makes available to anyone who requests it to the address  tto@unime.it the complete database of patents and Spin Off of the University of Messina.

www.unime.it