For Steve Blank, one of the great sages of Silicon Valley, innovation is born where there is a concentration of money and crazy people. In Italy, people are trying to create an ecosystem based on the same principles. It is MIND - Milano Innovation District, the innovation district that is being developed less than half an hour by subway from the ci...
Global CO2 emissions are causing a drastic and irreversible change in our climate. Italian startup Energy Dome, founded in 2019, finds a solution to the problem that involves precisely storing CO2 renewable energy. "Unlike coal and oil, which can be stored, renewable sources such as sun and wind do not have this feature. Therefore, batteries are al...
One in four Italian agricultural enterprises has already made or aims to make investments in digitization between 2022 and 2024. The just-released survey shows a sector that invests to reduce its environmental footprint driven by national and European regulations (in 47 percent of cases ), but is developing an autonomous awareness toward the climat...
Every day we use devices that require frequent replacement of batteries. Beyond the cost, they are difficult to dispose of and harmful to the environment. From now on it will be possible to remedy the problem, as a team of scientists from the Italian Institute of Technology in Milan (IIT) has created the world's first edible, rechargeable battery....
A patented coated fabric made from the industrial by-products of oranges and prickly pears destined for the fashion, furniture and automotive sectors is born in Sicily, Italy. The project developed by Ohoskin, the innovative startup born in 2019, aims to offer luxury fashion, furniture and automotive brands a sustainable, vegan alternative to ani...
According to the findings of a study conducted by the Politecnico University of Turin, Piedmont, the research carried out of 270 villages belonging to the list "I borghi più belli d’Italia," showed that short term rentals and realities such as Airbnb grow rural tourism and Italy's artistic heritage. In particular, they help boost the local economy,...
Interest in investing in Italy's villages and small towns is emerging as a major real estate trend for 2023. And as one of the most convenient and profitable portfolio choices. One indicator of this trend is ITS Lending, Italy's only real estate lending crowdfunding platform dedicated to the regeneration of Italian villages and historic centers, wh...
We have heard about the NASA studies that are trying to grow vegetables in space. But some have thought about starting by going underwater. Nemo's Garden is an innovative project based in Noli, Liguria, where some 600 crops from around the world, from tobacco to tangerines, have been grown. This strange underwater garden is the brainchild of Sergi...
That of garbage is an emergency that has been trying to be fought for years now in many Italian cities. Rome and Naples are certainly the ones that suffer most from this discomfort, but the problem of garbage is also being felt in other cities. Burning every type of waste that came to the landfill, pollutes, so that is why alternative methods are b...
Milan (Lombardy), Rome (Lazio), Venice (Veneto). These are the cities on the podium for the locations chosen by wealthy Europeans interested in finding a fine residence in Italy. 9.1% choose the city of the Madonnina, in first position compared to 8.7% of those who choose the Italian capital. In third position is Venice with 2.5 percent. While the...
Boom of benefit companies in Italy: this is the outcome of the report that annually tracks the number of businesses that are born and die in our country. Monitoring this data is not only useful to understand how our economic fabric is progressing, but it is also essential to understand the trends and behavior that entrepreneurs adopt from year to y...
The first generator for storing electricity, the battery, was made in Italy by Alessandro Volta. Today, with the very ambition to imitate Volta and bring Italy back to the center of the technological vanguard, there is Salvatore Pinto, charismatic founder of GES (Green Energy Storage). The young Italian company, founded in Trento in 2015, is a smal...