• Overview
• Data and Facts
• Sectors
• Services
• Location
• Technology transfer
• Research and Development
• Incubator and Incentives

Adress

Viale Rinaldo Piaggio, 32
56025 Pontedera (PI)
(Tuscany)

Telephone

+39 0587 274811

Fax

+39 0587 291904

World Wide Web

www.pont-tech.it

Technology transfer

Activities

Pharmaceuticals / Biomedicine Sectors

• In the Medical Devices sector, the focus is on the cooperation in networks between Italian and foreign companies
• Build-up of a GMP structure (Good Manufacturing Practices) for the development and production of drugs
• Project for the promotion of biomedicine (Hong Kong, USA, Arab Emirates): Cooperation exists between Tuscany and ICE. The aim is the organisation of diverse delegation trips to push ahead with business matching in the field of biomedicine (in addition, similar cooperations exist with the National Institute of Health and the American Consulate to support business matching also in these countries)

Alternative Energies Sector

- Project H2 – Hydrogen (Ministry for Universities and Research):

• SAVIA Project (drive systems based on hydrogen and ammoniac) – Tuscany Region
• NanoCatGeo Project (New nanostructured catalysators for the generation of electro-chemically produced hydrogen by wind devices) (private commission)

Mechanics Sector

• ESSETRE Project: Experimentation in the Pisa – Livorno - Luca urban area in the use of simulation and virtual reality for the provision of information on industrial process and co-design, for goods and materials movements and for industrial safety at work training.
• PRAGMA Project: Experimentation with virtual aggregation models between the most important local small and medium sized suppliers. Topic areas such as logistics solutions at the local level, co-dedesign and planning and the diversification to national and international markets are the centre of attention.
• Mechanical Training Project: the new training initiative, which, in particular, is aimed at the suppliers of mechanical components, is intended to react to specific ruiements and enquiries manifested in the industrial system in the Italian Region of Valdera.
• SINTEGES Project: The project supports the integration between the corporate application of Piaggio SpA and those of the local suppliers. This integration is intended among other things to be guaranteed among other things by progressive qualification and the use of a joint IT platform.

New Materials Sector

• Design and running of laboratories for research into new and re-usable plastic polymers (University of Pisa)

Netzwerke

• INCUBA.TO.RE Project: Structuring of a regional incubator network based on the identification of parameters, which should represent a joint basis for a recognisable incubation structure for the foundation and growth of new SMEs.
• Feasibility studies for competence centres for the sectors: o Life Sciences o Corporate incubation o ICT applications

Contacts to Germany already exist:

• Institute of Healthcare Industries, Steinbeis University.
• Institut fur Medizintechnik and Biophysik, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe
• Novineon Healthcare Technology Partners

There are numerous contacts with Germany, above all with the research centres IMM (Mainz), the Karlsruhe Research Centre (Karlsruhe), Steinbeis University (Berlin).

Contacts to foreign companies are welcomed in the following areas:

Contacts would be welcome in the automotive sector.