The way in which ICT collaborates with enterprises presents some innovative aspects compared traditional partnership methods which lack a strong integration of competences and contribution between the scientific and business.
The resources and competences that make up ICT are connected with two Departments: Information Technology (IT Department) and Telecommunications Technology (TLC Department) and eight Hubs. The Departments and Hubs are designed to guarantee the structural concentration and managerial coordination of the research institutes, forming a critical mass of competences and human and technological resources. Each Hub or Department constitutes an access portal to this critical mass of competences and resources, regardless of where their geographical collocation on the regional territory.
Well-defined decisional mechanisms that allow for possible additional phases may lead the partnership towards the presentation of a proper project, supplying, in addition, a contribution in relation to regulations and the management of relations with the institutions.
By overcoming the dichotomy between scientific/technological and management/application knowledge, through a real integration of both the different disciplines involved and phases within the cycle of innovation (basic research, applied research and technological development), it has been possible to overcome the typical problems with inter-university and university-business cooperation, through the search for solutions that aspire to conjoined excellence in three aspects: Scientific and Technological Research, Private enterprise resource involvement, Mobilization and vitalization of local resources.
The individual products which the Regional Competence Centre ICT proposes must into account the general issue within which they are collocated. In particular the needs and potential of the target markets and respective B2B partners to whom one may potentially turn must be considered. The eastern European markets are in an intermediate state of development in the ICT sector, offering therefore a greater structural propensity/necessity to invest. It’s worth targeting medium sized business for cooperation, as larger organizations probably have a lesser interest in new technological partnerships, because of the greater likelihood of them being already equipped with the competences necessary for development. While at the other end, small sized businesses usually have a radius of action and area of competence too limited for sustaining an effective partnership with the Centre.
EDS Italia Software S.p.a., Italdata S.p.a, Hewlett-Packard, Engineering
S.p.a., Global Value Solutions, Global Value Services, Datamat,
SchlumbergerSema S.p.a., Maggiore, DIAL, Marcopolo, Corited,
Circumvesuviana, Alcatel Italia, C.I.R.A, Italsystems.