The Europe Area Project

Knowledge and technological innovation constitute the main competitive “asset” not only for enterprises, but for regional systems as well. For years now the Campania Region has been committed to investing in the reinforcement of its capacity for scientific research and technological innovation, all for the purpose of successfully developing its territory. One of the key activities of Campania Region is to develop and combine local initiatives of excellence presenting a high level of research and innovation.

The Campania Region has established a set of horizontal and vertical priority sectors calling for consolidation, which, quite naturally, is one of the keywords of the regional strategy for territorial development. Horizontal sectors include ICT, biotechnologies and materials technologies. The vertical axes refer to aerospace, logistics and transport, health, food and agriculture, the cultural heritage and environmental monitoring (early warning). The essential requirements for this development system are the sustainability and quality of the initiatives, which must be based on a virtuous cross-fertilisation between the worlds of research and business.

The first phase of the deployment of this mechanism has already been completed, with the consolidation of the public research centres, resulting in the establishment of the Regional Competence Centres, which involve all the R&D players in the territory. The second phase, which is already in progress, regards opportunities to match the supply and demand for innovation generated by businesses and research centres. The third phase takes advantage of economic resources and points of scientific and technological excellence to finance new and sustainable activities. In Campania we have established an extremely dynamic system of research and opportunity for the world of innovation, and we shall continue our efforts to lend even further vigour to the local territory.