Science and Technology Parks

 Friuli Innovazione Centro di ricerca e di trasferimento tecnologico

We look after talents, so that from ideas come projects and from research products. Every day we respond to needs and ideas and attempt to realise projects as concretely and efficiently as possible and, simultaneously to promote the dialogue between research and industry.

 

Via Jacopo Linussio, 51
33100 Udine
(Friuli-Venezia Giulia)

Telephone:
+39 0432 629911
Fax:
+39 0432 603887
URL:
www.friulinnovazione.it

President:
Prof. Furio Honsell
Director:
Ing. Fabio Feruglio
Contact:
Dr. Romina Kocina; Romina.kocina@friulinnovazione.it
Email:
info@friulinnovazione.it

Main points

„Spazio impresa“ is an overall concept for companies, research and for new business ideas. The development of innovations is the focus of attention in every lifecycle phase: from the entrepreneurial ideas through to new companies, from incubation through to mentoring, from the search for funding through to partnership search (also via an own APRE coordination point, the Agency for the Promotion of European Research), from networking through to setting up in the Parco Scientifico e Tecnologico Luigi Danieli di Udine. For this, personalised services for the working out of strategies, processes, technologies and human resources are offered.
Particularly important in this context of ICT and high-tech is the corporate incubator Techno Seed (15 new high-tech companies have been established in 3 years), the new corporate support unit for development and growth processes of small and micro-companies), the involvement and foundation of the institute for applied genomics, an excellence centre, which has achieved an international level in the field of the genomics of living organisms, the foundation of the laboratory for metallurgy technology of the surfaces and high-tech materials, which practices integrated applied research in other segments of the sector and thereby has close contacts with the companies in the region.

Brief description

Friuli Innovazione was founded in 1999 with the aim of promoting the cooperation between the University of Udine and business in Friuli. This was to take place via the exchange of knowledge between researchers and companies and industrial usage of the scientific and technological results of the university.
In 2004 the Autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Guilia commissioned Friuli Innovazione with the setting up and administration of the Science and Technology Park Luigi Daniele di Udine. It is situated on a 50 000 m² site in the Udine Industrial Estate a few minutes from the motorway and easy to reach from several international airports.

Companies:
29 (31.07.2009)
R&D facilities:
4
Area:
65.000 m²
Total Number of Employees:
27

Sectors

    • ICT and Industry
      • Telecommunications [R&D of software in the mobile equipment segment]
      • Multimedia [Software for photo processing with applications for mobile equipment]
      • Process automation [Control systems for manufacturing machines in the mechanical engineering industry]
      • Software [Software for the motion simulation of vehicles (cars, motorcycles, trains and aircraft), Software for the monitoring of production processes in the industrial field, Software for corporate or research applications]
      • Miscellaneous [Computer science for cultural heritage items: Innovative mobile and 3D Services for tourism]
    • Life Sciences und Materials
      • Biotechnology [Structural and functional genomics for living organisms]
      • Biomedicine [Research in the field of medicine physics, radiation therapy and imaging in medicine]
      • Pharmaceutics [Plant biotechnologies for the chemical-pharmaceutical sector]
      • Materials Science [For this segment, the Laboratory for Metallurgy, Surface Finishing and Modern Materials Technology is responsible]
    • Agricultural/food
      • Agricultural production [Biotechnologies in animal breeding and development of natural probiotics]
      • Hygiene examinations
    • Energy and Environment
      • Energy [Build up of environmentally-friendly administration systems, Certification of environmentally-friendly administration systems, Study of innovative equipment in the thermodynamics sector]
      • Environmental protection [Dynamic olfactometry, research in the field of pollution and the development of processes (assessment and ecomanagement systems); Analysis, description and elimination of pollution factors and dust from woodworking processes]

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
      • Venture capital available
      • 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
      • Environmental services

Data and Facts

Key data

  • Founded in: 1999 (the Science and Technology Park "Luigi Danieli in 2004)
  • Seats: 4
  • Companies: 29 (31 July 2009)
  • Research centres: 4
  • Employees: 27
  • Area for research facilities and companies: 1.000 m² c/o headquarters and 510 m² c/o nearby branches
  • Total area: 65.000 m²
  • A project is underway for the extension of the park with the development of a further 3.000 m² and the construction of 3 buildings for new laboratories and offices. (completion envisaged for 2011)

Located companies

  • CRISP - Centro di Ricerca sull'inquinamento e lo sviluppo dei processi (¹)
  • Laboratorio di Metallurgia (¹)
  • Biostudi SasCosmarpi Srl (²)
  • DataMind Srl www.datamind.biz (²)
  • Dermap Srl www.dermap.com (²)
  • DitediEasy Staff Srl (²)
  • E-laser Srl www.e-laser.it (²)
  • Eye Tech Srl www.eye-tech.it (²)
  • Fill in the Blanks Srl www.fitb.it (²)
  • First SAS
  • Gestiware Srl www.gestiware.it (²)
  • InfoFACTORY Srl
  • Istituto di Genomica Applicata
  • Laboratorio Ing.Industriale
  • LOD Srl - Laboratorio Olfattometria Dinamica
  • Mobe Srl www.mobe.it (²)
  • Mobile 3D Srl www.mobile3d.it (²)
  • Rina SpA
  • Smart Path Europe Srl www.smartpath.it (²)
  • Sportello Innovazione-Confartigianato
  • Tecnest Srl
  • Tecnologie avanzate Srl
  • The Business Game www.thebusinessgame.it (²)
  • Thermokey SpA
  • Transactiva Srl
  • Turval Laboratories Srl
  • Zoom IN

(1) located laboratories (2) Start-ups located in incubators

Sponsors

The sponsors are predominately public authorities:

  • Università degli Studi di Udine 22,93%
  • Camera di Commercio di Udine 14,54%
  • Consorzio per lo Sviluppo Industriale del Friuli Centrale (ZIU) 12,52%
  • Associazione degli industriali di Udine 9,08%
  • Area Science Park 8,48%
  • Comune di Udine 8,48%
  • Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Udine e Pordenone 8,48%
  • Provincia di Udine 8,48%
  • Agemont Spa 2,42%
  • Mediocredito FVG Spa 2,42%
  • Unione degli Industriali della Provincia di Pordenone 1,21%
  • Centro Ricerche FIAT Soc. Cons. p.a. 0,51%
  • Comune di Tavagnacco 0,27%
  • Istituto Tecnico Industriale A. Malignani di Udine 0,13%
  • Istituto di Ricerche Economiche e Sociali (IRES) di Udine 0,04%

Objectives

  • Attracting investors
  • Foundation of new companies
  • Enhancement of the competitiveness of companies
  • Support of the cooperation between the universities and the companies
  • Support of new research activities
  • Economic exploitation of scientific results
  • Technological support of the companies and institutions
  • Site support
  • Enhancement of the technology level of companies and institutions

Network

  • Apsti
  • APRE, Italian Agency for the Support of European Research (coordination point in the park)
  • Achive, Network of European Incubators in the Information Communication Technology field

Location

Location and Environment

Name
Inhabitants
Distance

Location

Udine

96.588

10 km

Nearest town/city

Trieste

208.621

70 km

University

University of Udine

10 km

University of Trieste

70 km

SISSA Trieste

64 km

Infrastructure and links

Name
Distance

Airport

Aeroporto FVG - Ronchi dei Legionari

40 km

Aeroporto di Venice - Marco Polo

110 km

Aeroporto di Lubiana - Brnik

150 km

Railway Station

Udine main Station

15 km

Harbor

Trieste

70 km

Accessibility

We are only a few minutes away from the junction to the motorways to Austria, Slovenia and the most important Italian cities.

Technology transfer

IN-FVG New Ideas for the Development of the Region

The project is funded by the Autonomous Region FVJ (Law 26/2005, Art. 24) and aims at identifying innovative ideas in companies and promoting them at regional level by means of qualified training and outstanding management. The project is also directed at applicants outside the region or at foreign applicants, above all, from the Euro zone.

TRI ICT Cooperation between Innovative SMEs, Outstanding Users and Supporting Organisations in the ICT Sector

The project is funded by the European Union as part of the Interreg IV Italy-Austria programme and is aimed at identifying market trends and cross-border cooperation possibilities between the lead users (major companies and organisations) and the SMEs, which provide the ICT solutions in Friuli-Venezia Guilia and Carinthia. The project comprises a partnership between: Friuli Innovazione (lead management), Lakeside Labs Klagenfurt, the University of Udine, the University of Klagenfurt, the University of Trieste and BIC Friuli-Venezia Guilia.

Exe Prize

The project is funded by the European Union as part of the 'Erasmus for young entrepreneurs' pilot project and is aimed at organising 50 exchange programmes for young entrepreneurs with an innovative, if possible, technological business idea; the young entrepreneurs can work for a period in an established European company. The project comprises a partnership between: Friuli Innovazione (headquarters), I3P Torino, CICOM Sofia Antipolis –Francia, ICT Cluster Bulgaria –, ITD– Budapest, IPN Incubatora– Coimbra Portugal

The Following European Projects Are Currently Being Assessed

  • CEEM Central Environmental and Energy Management. Partner: Friuli Innovazione (headquarters) ASTER Medio Friuli (IT), CCO Moravia (CZ), RDA (SI), Primorsky Technology Park (SI), Hungarian S&T Foundation (HU), CCIAA Italia-Slovacchia (SK), Joanneum Research Institute (AT)
  • CENTS. Partner: Friuli Innovazione, Lower Silesia Agency of Economical Cooperation (PL), University Phsichiatric Hospital (SI), Technology Centre Teltow (DE), Bay Zoltan Foundation (HU), Parco Tecnologico Padano (IT)
  • SUPPORT SMEs. Partner: Friuli Innovazione, CCIAA Venezia (headquarters) Regione Veneto, Unioncamere Veneto, CCIAA Padova, Treviso Tecnologia, Parco VEGA; Parco Galileo, Polesine Innovazione, Eurosportello Ravenna, CCIAA Ferrara, Provincia Ravenna, CCIAA PN, CCIAA TS, CCIAA UD, CCIAA Ljubljana e Koper, JSI Ljubljana, IER Ljubljana, Techno Park Ljubljana, camera artigianato Nova Gorica e Sezana
  • M2IRC. Partner: Friuli Innovazione, Istituto Tecnico di Nova Gorica, Parco Tecnologico Nova Gorica, Agemont, ITI Malignani, Friuli Innovazione, JSI Ljubljana (SI), Università di Nova Gorica e Università di Ljubljana (SI)
  • INTERWOOD. Partner: Friuli Innovazione (headquarters), ConCentro-CCIAA Udine (IT), COSMOB (IT), Seinäjoki University (FI), Zala County Foundation (HU), University of West Hungary (HU), Valencian government (ES), ELKEDE (GR)
  • EXE MORE. Partner: Friuli Innovazione (headquarters), I3P(IT), ITD Hungary (HU), CICOM (FR), IPN, ICT Cluster Bulgaria, Technology Park (SLO), Barcelona Activa (ES), Agro Business Park
  • DBEs for SMEs. Partner: headquarters Politecnico di Bucharest (Romania), Electrotechnical Research&Design Institute (Romania), Bucharest Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Know Idea Consultants – C. em I&D e Gestão Empresarial, Lda (Portogallo), Glasgow Caledonian University (UK), Pro Support B.V (Netherlands), Friuli Innovazione (Italy)

Contacts to Germany already exist:

  • Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering – European coordinator of the IMP3ROVE project; here FI is the broker and consultant for the FVG companies
  • Stuttgart Region Economic Development Corporation. Stuttgart Region – Partner in the Interreg IIIC CORINNA project; Friuli Innovazione is the sole Italian partner

Contacts to foreign companies are welcomed in the following areas:

  • ICT (Information and Communication technologies)
  • Biotechnology
  • Metallurgy surface technology and modern materials technologies
  • Energy and the Environment
  • Wood

Research and Development

ICT and High-Tech: from the current technologies to the future

The project is financed by Regional Law 26/2005, Art. 21, and is currently in its second project year. The focus of attention is both applied and industrial research and also technology transfer. The aim is the acquisition of new knowledge in very promising ICT sectors, such as computer simulation.

Aim

The first part of the project deals with research into virtual simulation programs for vehicles in motion. The development of particularly innovative technologies formed thereby the centre of attention. The R&D activities aimed at integrating knowledge for more precise and more reliable software applications for vehicle simulations, as the vehicle tests on the road are increasingly replaced by simulation. The second part concentrated on the transfer of knowledge and developed technologies and serves as the basis for a possible foundation of a regional excellence centre for digital processing and testing technologies.

Description and elimination of contaminants, risk analysis for woodworking processes

Project is organized within the framework agreement between the Region and the Council of Ministers and financed by CIPE (interministerial committee for economic programming)

Aim

The aim of the initiative is the development of projects in applied/strategic research with medium and long-term impacts in the wood sector. Above all, environmental and safety topics are dealt with, which are included among the critical elements in the development of wood processing. The project comprises five topics:

  • Study of the dynamics and dispersion of wood particles and fibres
  • Development of filter material for the removal of formaldehyde in the exhaust air at low temperatures caused by the processing procedures for wood
  • Foundation of a laboratory for fire and risk research in the wood and furniture segment
  • Description of the chemical-physical composition of wood varnishes and their composition with the VOC emissions and the product quality
  • Epidemiological control of the employees in the wood and furniture industry

Incubator and Incentives

Incubator

  • 130 m² of incubator area are available
  • Furnished offices, fax and photocopier in the central area, Internet (10MB broadband are available to the park), general rooms for meetings, canteen and cafeteria, public transportation
  • Nearby there are 170 m² available (own location in the industries zone of Udine – 5 km from the park), another 85 m² available at a branch 20 km from the parc

Incentives

Regional incentives:

  • Regional Law No.26/2005 “General provisions for innovation, scientific research and technological development sectors"

National incentives:

  • Decree of the Ministry for Economic Development dated 02. May 2001 for the performance of the "Corporate Techno Seed Incubator" project (concluded in April 2009). CIPE Funds for the performance of a research project in the wood sector (law 208/1998)

European incentives:

  • European Fund – Programme Interreg IV Italy-Austria; Erasmus Pilot Programme for Young Entrepreneurs