Technology Districts

 Sardegna DistrICT - DT Tecnologie e Comunicazioni

Polaris maps the Future

 

Località Piscinamanna
09010 Pula (Cagliari)
(Sardinia)

Telephone:
+39 070 92431
Fax:
+39 070 92432203
URL:
www.sardegnaricerche.it

President:
Giulio Murgia
Director:
Francesco Marcheschi
Contact:
Valter Songini
Email:
info@sardegnaricerche.it

Brief description

The Sardinian ICT District Sardegna DistrICT is based on scientific, technological, economic and industrial competence, which has been developed since the beginning of the 1990's on the island, in particular, in Cagliari. The areas Information and Telecommunications Technologies and advanced Internet applications are the main focus.
At that time, the Centre for Research, Development and High Level Studies in Sardinia (CRS4) was founded by the regional government, which was headed by the Nobel Prize winner, Carlo Rubbia, and by Prof. Paolo Zanella. In cooperation with the research team from the Geneva Institute, CERN, the first Italian website (www.crs4.it) was created, so that the first online daily newspaper 'Unione Sarda' could be placed on the Internet.
The online version of Unione Sarda was the beginning for video online, the first commercial Internet service provider in Italy.
Then followed Tiscali, one of the most important Internet providers in Europe and numerous small high-tech companies.
With the new technological possibilities, the economic development of Sardinia was able to be pushed ahead with more rapidly. Thereby not only new employment possibilities were created but also the island attracted international attention.
With the foundation of the district, the competences were to be merged into an innovative and integrative system. This system and highly qualified staff and support funds were intended to support cooperation's and synergies between public and private research centres and companies in the branch.

Sectors

    • ICT and Industry
      • Telecommunications
      • Multimedia
      • Electronics/Electro-Technology
      • Microelectronics
      • Mechanics
      • Measure, Control and Testing instruments
      • Robotics
      • Industrial automation
      • Process automation
      • Software
      • Miscellaneous [Advanced applications of Internet]
    • Life Sciences und Materials
      • Biotechnology
      • Diagnostics
      • Biomedicine
      • Pharmaceutics
      • Biology
      • Chemistry
      • Nanotechnology
      • Materials Science
    • Agricultural/food
      • Food technologies
      • Agricultural production
      • Transformation of products
      • Microbiology
      • Hygiene examinations
    • Energy and Environment
      • Physics
      • Energy
      • Marine Technologies
      • Environmental protection

details

ICT - Information and communication technologies
DMT - Digital Media Technologies

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
      • Management consultancy
    • Business
      • Confidential economic data
      • Development of business contacts
      • Consultancy related to intellectual property
      • Access to venture capital
      • Network formations
    • Administrative services
      • Consultancy for dealing with public administration
      • Support of relations with the EU
      • Technical support in the selection of locations by companies and laboratory facilities
    • Other services
      • Territorial marketing
      • Location marketing
      • Consultancy for public administration related to energy resources
      • Environmental services
      • Tourist information services
      • Miscellaneous

Data and Facts

The districts as regional systems have the following features:

  • Local nearness to the companies and facilities in industry and science
  • Easy exchange of information, experience and knowledge
  • Common roots and economic and cultural interests can promote rapid growth also by imitation and fruitful cooperation between the companies and the research world.

Behind the foundation of Sardegna DistrICT lies the medium-long term vision of the strategic extension of the convergences between ICT and digital or multimedia technologies. Thereby guidelines and approaches are to be defined, also from the spacious angle of technologies and applications in the ICT and DMT (Digital Media Technologies) segments to be able then to generate an excellence status (with the help of the state-of-the-art in applied research and the resultant business possibilities).

Objectives

  • Upvaluation of the region: Tourism, culture and environmental goods, typical local products
  • Digital media: technologies and contents
  • GeoWeb: geographical/locally-related data and web

Members

Location

Location and Environment

Name
Inhabitants
Distance

Location

Cagliari

250.000

University

University Cagliari

University Sassari

Cluster

Cork processing

Granite and marble

Carpet crafts

ICT

Infrastructure

Name
Distance

Airport

Cagliari "Mario Mameli"

Cagliari "Mario Mameli"

Railway Station

Cagliari

Harbor

Porto di Cagliari

Miscellaneous

Cagliari Logistics Centre

Links

The “Porto Canale di Cagliari” is the most important container port in Sardinia and is situated 37 km from Polaris. The port is administered by the 'Cagliari International Container Terminal' company (CICT), which again belongs to the Contship Italia Group. It is not only a transhipment hub but also a central regional market junction. With the help of this port and the numerous cooperations with the most important compnies in Sardinia, both the export potential can be extended and also new partnerships formed. GENERAL INFORMATION Access Channel: Width: 216 m Depth: 21 – 16 m Widht of the Beckens: 600 m Distance to berth: 1.5 n.m. Width of the channel: 216 m

Technology transfer

Programmes

Activities

The district activates programmes, which are made up from research, development and training activities. The aim is the foundation of technology laboratories, which unite the science and technology competences from industry, universities and research centres. By means of the technology laboratories, the companies involved can access the technological equipment and the expertise within the district. In addition, not only the research activities are boosted but also the evaluation of scientific results in industry and entrepreneurial initiatives.

The laboratories:

  • Laboratory for acquistion, marketing and visualisation of complex 3D models
  • ICT Laboratory for Medicine
  • Laboratory for Environemntal Intelligence
  • Laboratory Open Media Center
  • Laboratory for Cooperative Production of Multi-Platform TV Programmes
  • Laboratory for the Production of Prototypes and New Digital Formats
  • Laboratory Open Source Software
  • Laboratory for Industrial Telemicroscopy
  • GeoWeb Laboratory and Mobile User Experience

Research and Development

Incubator and Incentives