Cittadella della Ricerca

Sectors

• ICT and Industry
  • Telecommunications
  • Multimedia
  • Electronics/Electro-Technology
  • Microelectronics
  • Mechanics
  • Measure, Control and Testing instruments [Electromedical equipment]
  • Aerospace
  • Software
• Life Sciences und Materials
  • Biotechnology [Production of bio-compatible innovative materials in the high-tech segment]
  • Diagnostics [Material diagnostics]
  • Biomedicine
  • Nanotechnology
  • Materials Science
• Agricultural/food
  • Hygiene examinations [Merchandise technology laboratory (being set up)]
• Energy and Environment
  • Energy
  • Environmental protection
  • Restoration and monument conservation

Services

• Research and Development
  • Research and Development inside the park
  • Administration of external research projects
  • Technology transfer
  • Commercialization of technologies
• Human Resources
  • Organisation of conferences, courses and seminars
  • Staff training
  • Partnerships with universities and other research institutes
• Business
  • Consultancy related to intellectual property
  • Network formations
• Administrative services
  • Administrative services for located companies
  • Technical support in the selection of locations by companies and laboratory facilities
• Other services
  • Location marketing
  • Consultancy for public administration related to energy resources

Data and Facts

Key data

• Founded in: 1987
• Companies: circa 16
• Research Centers: 12
• Companies and institutions: 31
• Center of learning: 10
• Employees: circa 800
• Area for research facilities: 20.000 m²
• Total area: 44.000 m²
• Available area for new locations: 400 m²

Objectives

• Location marketing
• Intensification of the relations between universities and companies
• Enhancement of the competitiveness of companies
• Attracting investors
• Creation of new jobs
• Enhancement of the technology level of companies and institutions
• Technological consulting for companies and institutions
• Foundation of new companies

Members

Companies

• APMO (Associazione Pugliese Medicina Olistica)
• ASSI Form Europe S.r.l.
• Consorzio CRISA
• Biomateriali S.r.l.
• Cittadella della Ricerca S.C.p.A.
• CNR (Sezione IMM di Lecce)
• Consorzio CETMA
• Consorzio GURU
• Consorzio Italbiotec
• Consorzio OPTEL
• Consorzio Uni.Versus
• Data Management S.p.A.
• DeLoS S.r.l.
• Emmebi Controlli S.r.l.
• Enaip
• ENEA
• ETA Inform S.r.l.
• Gei Inform S.r.l.
• Gi.Bi.Pi. S.r.l.
• GHIMAS S.p.A.
• Hospitex Diagnostics S.r.l.
• Infrastrutture S.p.A.
• ISBEM S.C.p.A.
• Italcementi S.p.A.
• Laboratorio Pubblico-Privato TEXTRA (ENEA – CETMA)
• Laboratorio Pubblico-Privato SOLAR (Prof. Laforgia)
• Polymekon S.r.l.
• Probios S.r.l.
• S2I Italia S.r.l.
• Società per l'Ingegneria d'Impresa S.C.r.l.
• Università del Salento (Laboratorio CEDAD, due Facoltà e Dipartimento Ingegneria dell'innovazione)

Location

Location and Environment

Infrastructure and links

further infrastructure

guesthouse with 160 beds
cafeteria (under construction)

Technology transfer

Project INNOVA

The project envisages integrated activities in the following fields of activity:
D1. Cooperation activities between research centres, universities, technical universities and technology parks to strengthen the cooperation with the companies (politics, the economy, financial topic areas,environmental problems, acquisition and support of particularly established regional products, consumer protection, etc.)
D2. Education and research measures including joint education initiatives, research and practical implementation coordinated by universities and research facilities in both countries
D3. Measures for technology transfer and the handing on of research results on production processes and to SMEs
D4. Scholarships for university students and academics of both countries based on joint programmes

Project NET-ITEL

Network for continuous Italian-Greek cooperation in the fields of research and innovation. The project envisages integrated activities in the fields of the following activities:
D1. Cooperation activities between research centres, universities, technical universities and technology parks to intensify the cooperation with companies (politics, the economy, financial topic areas, environmental problems, acquisition and support of particularly established regional products, consumer protection, etc.).
D2. Education research measures including joint education initiatives research and practical implementation coordinated by universities and research facilities of both countries.
D3. Exchange of experiences and sector-specific technological expertise, for example, in the field of innovative technologies, telecommunications and generally applied research.

Project MEDI-CUBE - MEDITERRANEAN TECHNOLOGY LED INCUBATOR CO-OPERATION

The project should create a productive atmosphere in the work groups, which strengthens the pressure for innovation in the companies.
The result of the project is a network of about 10-20 incubators, technology parks or technology brokers, who form a strategic alliance in the respective area of interest; by means of innovative thrusts in high-tech companies located in the incubators, the technology transfer for innovation management should be simplified.

Project SINTeSIS – SUPPORT of the INNOVATION and the NEW TECHNOLOGIES for the DEVELOPMENT of the JONIC-SALENTINIC Areas

In the centre of the project is the development of activities for the analysis, promotion and support of new companies, which, on the one hand, are distinguished by a high degree of innovative contents and, on the other hand, are based on scientific insights obtained in the Ionian-Salentine area of the provinces Lecce, Brindisi and Taranto.

Project R.I.S.O. - “Ionian-Salentine Network for Employment”

Primary Aims of the Project:
a) At the heart of this project is the introduction of remote learning courses, which are coupled in particular to the use of products/services, which have been generated by other work groups in the RISO project.
b) Products and services generated in the e-learning field. This should facilitate the introduction of innovative processes, which in fact are restricted in the initial phase to the use of services of the R.I.S.C.O. e-government project but can be extended as part of the market possibilities thereafter.
c) Parallel thereto is envisaged the creation of a special centre which can perform these tasks.

Project FORFLY

Training of specialists for the branch office for the new production structure Alenia Composite in Grottaglie

Project Ludica

Toilet facilities for the handicapped in rural areas

Artecno Project

Women, tourism, rural areas, the environment

Contacts to foreign companies are welcomed in the following areas:

Companies, which wish to set up businesses in Italy and are active in the fields of aviation, biomaterials, innovative materials, clinical biomedicine, in the energy field or in the ICT field.
Other science and technology parks
Other districts

Research and Development

Incubator and Incentives

Incubator

• 400 m² available space
• the industrial zone of Mesagne provides further incubator space for possible business establishments

Regional incentives

POR 2007-2013 REGIONE PUGLIA: Support funding for research, spin-off’s, for credit awarding, etc.

National incentives

PON research and competitiveness (the area of applicability of the European Funds ESF and EFRE)