AREA Science Park

Sectors

• ICT and Industry
  • Multimedia
  • Electronics/Electro-Technology
  • Microelectronics
  • Mechanics
  • Measure, Control and Testing instruments
  • Robotics
  • Industrial automation
  • Process automation
  • Aerospace
  • Software
• Life Sciences und Materials
  • Biotechnology
  • Diagnostics
  • Biomedicine
  • Pharmaceutics
  • Biology
  • Chemistry
  • Nanotechnology
  • Materials Science
• Agricultural/food
  • Food technologies
• Energy and Environment
  • Physics
  • Geology
  • Energy
  • Marine Technologies
  • Environmental protection

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
  • Staff recruiting
  • Partnerships with universities and other research institutes
  • Management consultancy
• Business
  • Development of business contacts
  • Consultancy related to intellectual property
  • Access to venture capital
  • Network formations
• Administrative services
  • Certification
  • Consultancy for dealing with public administration
  • Administrative services for located companies
  • 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

Data and Facts

Key data

• Founded in: 1978
• Seats: 2 Trieste (with 2 campuses); Gorizia.
• Companies: 83 (at 31/12/2008)
• Research centers: 21/83
• Companies with a high innovation potential: 62/83
• Employees: 2.439
• Area for research facilities: 32.273 m²
• Total area: 81.176 m²
• Available area for new locations: 48.903 m²

Located companies

• Actimex S.r.l.
• Adienne S.r.l.
• AdriaCell S.r.l.
• Alphagenics Diaco Biotechnologies S.r.l.
• Anibody Unit - Rottapharm Biotech S.r.l.
• APE. Research S.r.l.
• Biotekna Labs di Trieste
• Bracco Imaging S.p.A. - CRB Trieste
• Centro di Competenza ed Applicazioni Tecnologiche
• CNR - INFM - Laboratorio Nazionale TASC
• CNR - Istituto di Cristallografia - Unità di TS
• CNR - Istituto di Struttura della Materia
• C.B.M - Consorzio per il Centro di Biomedicina Molecolare ScarlConsorzio per l'incremento degli studi e delle ricerche dei dipartimenti di fisica dell'Università di TS
• EMAZE Networks S.p.A.- Laboratorio R&S
• FIF - Fondazione Italiana Fegato Onlus
• Health Robotics S.r.l.
• Holo 3D S.r.l.
• I.N.M.M. -Istituto di neurobiologia e medicina molecolare
• Laboratorio di luce di Sincrotrone ELETTRA
• Ratios S.r.l. - LO.LA. - Logistic Laboratory
• Riviplast S.r.l.
• S.I.S.S.A. - Laboratorio di Neurobiologia Molecolare
• Teorema Engineering S.r.l.
• Transpharma S.a.S.
• Orion Power S.r.l.
• AMPED
• ARS - Airbone Remote Sensing
• Athonet S.r.l.
• C.Re.S. - Centro Regionale Servizi per la Piccola e Media Industria S.p.A.
• CARSO (Consorzio del Centro di Ricerca Avanzata per l'Ottica Spaziale)
• Centro Ricerche e Produzione Euroclone Trieste
• CeRQuAM (Centro di Ricerca per la Qualità dell'Ambiente Marino)
• CETA - Centro di Ecologia Teorica ed Applicata
• CGA
• Cimteclab S.r.l. - Laboratorio R&S
• Demus Lab S.r.l.
• Dr. Schär S.r.l. - Schär R&D Centre
• Elcon Elettronica S.r.l.
• Elimos R&D Lab
• Enteos S.r.l.
• Ergolines Lab S.r.l.
• ESTECO S.r.l.
• Eurand S.p.A. - Polymer Conjugation Group
• Hydrotech S.r.l.
• I.C.G.E.B. - International Centre For Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
• I.B.S. r&s e produzione
• I.C.S. - International Centre for Science and High Technology
• Idrostudi S.r.l.
• Illycaffè S.p.A. - AromaLab
• I.N.F.N. - Sezione di Trieste
• Innovation Factory
• Insiel S.p.A. - Centro R&S Padriciano
• ITAL TBS S.p.A. - 1) Laboratorio CIVAB; 2)Laboratorio Endoscopia
• Kaires
• LNCIB - Laboratorio Nazionale del Consorzio Interuniversitario per le Biotecnologie
• ModeFinance
• MYWAVE Electronics S.p.A.
• Promoscience S.r.l
• Proposita
• Prospero S.r.l.
• SET - Sistemi Evoluti per i Trasporti S.r.l.
• SIC S.r.l.
• Sicom
• Sigea S.r.l.
• Simulware S.r.l. - Laboratorio R&S
• Synaps Technology S.r.l.
• T. & B.
• T-Connect S.r.l.
• TECNA S.r.l.
• Tecnovia
• Tellus S.r.l. - Laboratorio di R&S
• Wego S.r.l.
• Elad S.r.l.
• GME S.r.l.
• Microglass S.r.l.
• Onda Communication S.p.A.
• Over I.T. S.r.l.
• Proquadro S.r.l.
• Sim 2
• SIPRO
• Sistec S.r.l.
• VDA Elettronica S.p.A.

Sponsors

The sponsors are all public authorities:

• Autonomous Region of Friuli-Venezia Guilia
• The Province of Triest
• Commune of Triest
• University of Triest
• University of Udine
• Public research institutes of the Friuli-Venezia Guilia Region and SISSA
• CNR – National Research Council
• Regional Council of the Friuli-Venezia Guilia Region
• Consortium for Supporting Physics in the University of Triest
• Employers' Organisation
• Employees' Organisations (CGIL, CISL, UIL)
• Unioncamere

Objectives

• Enhancement of the competitiveness of companies
• Foundation of new companies
• Intensification of relations between universities and companies
• Economic exploitation of the scientific results
• Technological consulting for companies and institutions
• Creation of new jobs
• Enhancement of job quality
• Attracting investors
• Build-up of new research activities
• Site support
• Enhancement of the technology level of companies and institutions

Network

• APSTI (Italian Association of the Science and Technology Parks)
• IASP (International Association of the Science and Technology Parks)
• AIRI (Italian Association of industrial Research)
• APEIRON
• APRE (Agency for Subsidising European Research)
• ASSOBIOTEC/FEDERCHIMICA (Italian Association of Biotechnology)
• Consorzio MIB (Master International Business)
• CSIUT
• EBN (European Business & Innovation Centre Network)
• INSME (International Network for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises)
• TII (Technology Innovation Information)

Location

Location and Environment

	Name	Inhabitants	Distance
Location	Triest	206.590	10 km
Industrial District	Basovizza		2 km
	Triest		10 km
University	University of Triest		6 km

Infrastructure and links

	Name	Distance
Airport	Airport Friuli-Venezia Guilia - Ronchi dei Legionari	40 km
	Venice - Tessera	135 km
	Airport Brnik - Ljubljana	100 km
Railway Station	Triest Main Station	10 km
Harbor	Triest	10 km

Accessibility

AREA Science Park is on the A4 motorway, which links Venice, Milan and Turin, and also on the A 23 via Udine to Austria, Slovenia and Croatia.

Technology transfer

Inclusion in EU project

SLIMPORT

Partner associations: AREA; Teorema Engineering Srl; Eurotech Spa; CRESM; T&T Srl; Harbour authority Trieste; Transhipment port Fernetti; University of Trieste. Objective: Realisation of an innovative port concept with modular solutions for efficiency enhancement of process technology in the area between the last sea mile and the first land mile.

INDUSTRIA 2015 MADE IN ITALY

• PROCERPOL Partners: AREA; CIMTECLAB; UNI TS; PETROCERAMICS; MOMA NANOTECH; MEDITEA; SINCROTRONE TRIEST; KILOMETRO ROSSO; Objective: Development of new, innovative and intelligent materials on the basis of polymers and ceramics for the production of orthopaedic artificial limbs.
• GRAMNOS Partner: AREA; TESAN; SNAIDERO and other important domestic industrial and research companies; Objective: Development of intelligent and innovative systems for ambulant monitoring of patients with neurodegenerative illnesses and, at the same time, functional safeguarding of these patient groups.

ESIL

European Sustainable Innovation Licence, was initiated with the help of the European Programme Leonardo da Vinci. Within this project, a joint training model was developed on the basis of the experience of the partners in the spheres innovation, creativity and sustained production.

TETRIS

Teaching TRIz at School- is funded with the assistance of funds from the "Programma di Apprendimento Permanente 2007 - 2013 Leonardo da Vinci" [programme for continuous further training]. It contains the deepening of the topics "Definition and Solution of Problems" and has set itself the target of promoting creativity and overcoming psychological inertia. The participants in the TETRIS courses gain competences, with the help of which they further develop their creativity, their perceptive ability and the finding of solution approaches.

IUSES

The project is promoted and coordinated by AREA Science Park: it is intended to enhance efficiency in the use of energy in the everyday life of pupils and teaching staff in secondary schools. IUSES deals in accordance with an integrated and uniform concept with the top priority aims of the European Programme "Intelligent Energy Europe“ (IEE): Energy efficiency in buildings, in industry and in transport and the use of renewable energies.

STARNETregio

STARring a transnational network of REGIOnal research-driven marine clusters The aim of the STARNETregio is the creation of stronger and more solid business links with the maritime clusters of the Friuli-Venezia Guilia region, Slovenia and the Croatian Coastal Region of Rijeka to implement joint research agencies and integrated action strategies. In the spotlight is thereby: a) the synergetic integration of the political decisions for the support of public and private investments in the R&D segment, b) promotion of the innovation force in the individual sectors and their competitiveness in compliance with the most recent programmatic decisions of the European Commission (blue book, October 2007), c) aims within the framework of the European initiative "Waterborne Technology Platform".

Friend Europe

AREA Science Park, responsible for the Friuli Venezia Guilia region, is in addition to its membership in the transregional consortium "Friend Europe" also active in the regional consulting unit of the network "Enterprise Europe Network". Active since January 2008, the consortium offers a broad spectrum of tailor-made services, in particular, for SMEs, in order to support them in the following activities: development of new products, opening up of new markets, information on activities and offers of the European Union. AREA Science Park accommodates the regional consulting unit of the network and is responsible for the Friuli Venezia Guilia region.

BINASP (Bio-Nanotechnology European Infrastructure in AREA Science Park)

Comprehensive project for technological infrastructure and research in the sphere of the integrated bio- and nanotechnologies and drew up for the European programme promotion of the technological district for molecular biomedicine. The realisation of excellence centres envisages research activities, experiments and further training in the fields of integrated biotechnology and nanotechnology. In the framework of this project, laboratories for multidisciplinary research groups and action groups are created for the economic upvaluation of the research results. These are located on the new site of PS&T, which was created expressly for the technological area of the molecular biomedicine.

IMPACTS

IMPACTS (Archive Tissues: Improving Molecular Medicine Research and Clinical Practice) is a “Coordination Action”, which comprises 21 research centres in 11 European countries and is part of the sixth Framework Programme of the European Union. IMPACTS was initiated in March 2007and ends in spring 2010. The aim of the project is European standardisation of the research methods in the spheres DNA, RNA and proteins of tissue inserted in formalin or in paraffin. Targeted is the stipulation of common European guidelines for the removal of DNA, RNA and proteins from archived tissue.

Activities

Activity 1

Basilicata Innovazione

The initiative "Basilicata Innovazione" was initiated by the agreement between the Basilicata region and the AREA Science Park. This initiative offers the companies of the Province of Luciana direct access to the specialist world of applied international research and thus access to competent partners, funding and support with the realisation of projects. By means of the network of international cooperation partners, to which both AREA and MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston - belong and thus their competence and technology networks, the SMEs can use qualified services in the technology transfer. For the founding of companies, technical support in all precursor phases of the development of entrepreneurial ideas are offered, from the correct assessment of the sustainability of economic resources through to the compilation of the business plan. By means of research and knowledge of Basilicata, projects and cooperations are promoted, which are aimed at the identification of potential users from industry, who have a respective interest in the research results and competences in the field of innovation.

Activities 2

Innovation Network

Innovation Network is a project supported by the Friuli Venezia Guilia region and AREA that should create stable structures for companies. The aim is the dissemination of research insights and technologies and the promotion of innovative projects. Innovation Network is a conglomerate of Competence Centres, which are active in superordinate subject areas such as the environment, energy, productive efficiency or in the sectors represented in the Friuli Venezia Guilia region such as wood furnishings, agricultural industry, shipbuilding and nautical engineering. Each node of this innovation network offers the interested companies insights, specific competences and services, which are indispensable for the development of innovative products, processes and management.

Sister

Sister – Liaison Office is an AREA project, which serves the research upvaluation in the Province of Friuli Venezia Guilia. In cooperation with the regional research facilities and with the assistance of the funding by the Friuli Venezia Guilia region, AREA has founded a permanent system, with which the companies can be provided efficiently all the knowledge and innovations generated by regional research. Sister – Liaison Office has planned and tested a new upvaluation process; this means better organisation of the processes and services, which are needed for the transfer of the research results to the market. The services of the Sister – Liaison Office are provided free of charge to all researchers in the Friuli Venezia Guilia region.

Domotiva FVG

With this project, it is intended to generate a research, development and production chain in the Friuli Venezia Guilia region for Domotik equipment, which does justice to the current needs of the population at consumer-compatible prices. These are not merely technologies for and about the house, but are integrated systems for simpler, more economic, more ergonomic and safer performance of human activities, wherever these are performed. These devices are commonly used in daily life: in the home, car, boat, hospital, senior citizens and handicapped persons homes, schools, offices, factories etc.

Activity 3

Partnerships

Cooperation with foreign science and technology parks, which are interested in basic and further training in the field of technology transfer and in assisting in the foundation of parks by the consortium. AREA Science Park is currently involved in the field of development, promotion of science and technology parks in USA and in Africa.

Contacts to Germany already exist:

• VDC Virtual Dimension Center
• ZAB – Brandenburg Economic Development Board
• Fraunhofer – TEG
• BIC- Frankfurt
• EIFER
• Studio Flosser
• Siemens AG Automation and Drives
• Joerg Kreisel
• TZL
• Technische Universität München
• Charitè Universitätsmedizin Berlin
• Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Research and Development

Energy “ENERPLAN”: geothermal energy by geothermal power

Description

The project, which was founded in 2005, united the resources and competences of the research centres and institutions of the technology district and received financial support from the sixth EU Research Framework Programme. It is aimed at enhancing the technological infrastructure and also that of the research infrastructure in the field of the integrated BioNano Technologies. During the project duration of five years, excellence facilities are to be created for the course of the research activities and experiments and further training courses in the areas biotechnology and integrated nanotechnology are performed. Additionally the prison of structured laboratories for multi-disciplinary research groups and the research results for the review of the economic exploitation of the scientific results have been assured.

Purpose, target group, benefits

The project has the engineering of this technology as its final aim, so that, from a pilot unit, a genuine production site evolves. These parameters are decisive both for the size and feature determinations for energy production facilities and also for the determination of the necessary reviews. Both are significant for the guarantee of optimum functionality under all operating conditions, better maintenance and for ensuring the highest level of reliability.. Target Group: Companies in the public administration field for the retrofitting and modernisation of their properties. Benefits: An innovation sequence in the development and use of renewable and alternative energy sources, analysis activities, testing, development, industrialisation and spread of innovative systems for energy production, taking environmentally compatible and cost-saving factors into consideration.

Energy “ENERPLAN”: heat pumps

Description

The heat pumps currently on the market are only for buildings with a low pressure unit, such as underfloor and ceiling heating. These technologies are not usable in older buildings, unless a complete new installation is decided on. From this consideration, the idea emerged for the development of highly efficient heat pump of medium size, with which water at over 75° can be heated. This innovation is seen as a substitute for the old boilers and pre-supposed no renovation of the complete facility. For this pioneering innovation, a system patent has just been submitted.

Purpose, target group, benefits

By introducing such a product to the market, the energy consumption could be reduced drastically. In addition, renewable energy sources could be used for many types of buildings, the operating costs for the final consumer could be reduced and the pollution emissions eliminated by the boilers in the residential areas. Target Group: Companies in public administration for retrofitting and modernisation of their properties. Benefit: Development and spread of the innovation for the use of renewable and alternative energy sources by the construction of model facilities, which at the same time are technological development laboratories and industrial test facilities. There the technical, environmentally related and economic results of the diverse solutions can be recorded and compared. The energy costs are reduced and simultaneously the pollution emissions can be drastically reduced by the energy consumption in the residential and commercial areas.

Projekt: Slimport

Description

The SLIMPORT project is funded by the Italian strategy programme “Mobilità sostenibile” di Industria until 2015. An innovative harbour concept is realised, that contains modular solutions, in order to structure the work processes between the last sea mile and the first land mile more efficiently. It offers:

• Reduction of the turnaround time and the transit of goods and the waiting times of transit passengers in the harbours;
• Acceleration of the loading, unloading and transfer processes;
• Cooperation with the on-site existing Info Telematics Management Systems;
• More safety for the harbour tasks whilst retaining the business logic;
• Intermodality in the logistics chain;
• Disentangling the transports and sustained mobility in the region.

Purpose, target group, benefits

Purpose: Provision of innovative solutions for hardware and software systems, which have a high technology content. These solutions are based on a high ICT usage level and were planned, as seen from the integrative and modular aspect, to do more justice to the needs of the end users. Target Group: Ports and port authorities, transhipment ports, professional associations of the transport workers (shipping brokers, freight companies, car transporters, terminal workers). Benefits: Both national and also Europe-wide circulation of new products and services, which can enhance the maritime transport market and transport on rail and road. The aim is the reduction of the environmental loading and greater industrial sustainability. Of significance are, in particular, the safety aspect and the perfect state of the transported goods (e.g. perishable goods and dangerous goods), the traceability of which should be improved.

Incubator and Incentives

Incubator

• Available space for new locations in the incubators: 500 m² Office area + 150 m² laboratory area
• Equipping the incubators: offices and laboratories are connected to the laboratories of the AREA Science Park.
• Private enterprises: 68
• Public enterprises: 13
• International enterprises: 7 (of these 5 research centres are already included in the 13 public companies)

Located companies

• Biopod: http://www.callerio.org/
• G-Diet: http://www.gdiet.it
• Evolving: http://www.area.trieste.it/opencms/opencms/area/it/InnovationFactory/evolving.html
• modeFinance: http://www.modefinance.com/
• T&MS: http://www.area.trieste.it/opencms/opencms/area/it/InnovationFactory/TeMS.html
• AMPED s.r.l., first start up: http://www.amped.it/

Incentives

• Regional subsidy: Funding 30/84, Research funds L.R.26/2005
• National subsidy CIPE from the agreement with the state-regional framework programmes L. 46/82 and L. 488/92
• European subsidy: Obiettivo 2 (Economic and social build-up in structurally weak areas); Joint initiative INTERREG IIIA IT-SLO; Joint initiative INTERREG IIIA IT-A; INTERREG CADSES; INTERREG TRANSADRIATICO; VI EU Framework Programme for Research and Development; FSE-Obiettivo 3 (European Social Fund-Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities); Leonardo da Vinci-Programme

Regional incentives

• POR 2007-2013 European Social Fund

National incentives

• CIPE
• POR 2007-2013 European Social Fund

European incentives

• 7th Research Framework
• Intelligent Energy Europe
• Lifelong Learning Programme
• Transnational Cooperation Programmes
• Interreg