In a small town in the province of Como in Lombardy, specifically in Fino Mornasco, there is a group of 180 young people who have decided to deal with Space. Space in all senses, the cosmic one and the one that contains all material things, as the definitions found in physics books recite. The same books that teach how every material object can occ...
The number of startups and SMEs hiring new resources in Italy is growing. In 2021, 78.5 % of Italian innovative companies expanded their teams with new hires, up 8.5 % from 2020. This is according to research on the impact of startups on the labor market in Italy conducted by the Italian Tech Alliance (formerly VC Hub Italia) in collaboration with...
Positive signals on Italy's attractiveness. The growth trend continues: increasing foreign direct investment. With 207 projects in 2021, our country marks +83%, which is higher than in all other European countries. However, with a market share of 3.5% (up 1.5 points), Italy still ranks far behind the main attractors of foreign direct investment (Id...
A large innovation park right outside Milan, in the former Expo 2015 area. Technological, green, open to all, it is called Mind (Milan Innovation District). It will host offices, research centers, cultural spaces, but also gardens, gardens, stores. On April 30 and May 1, with two days of celebration, the Mind Village was inaugurated, the first dist...
Every residue is a resource, waste can become an innovative product. If behind it there is a dream, the vision of a new way of producing. Labrenta, a company founded 40 years ago to produce cork, plastic and synthetic stoppers for the wineries of the Vicenza area in Veneto, thanks to "dreamy" entrepreneurs is following new paths towards sustainabil...
For the second consecutive year, Italy is confirmed as the country with the highest number of companies in the FT1000, the annual ranking of the fastest growing companies in Europe, published by the Financial Times with Statista. In the 2022 edition, there are 235 Italian companies. Of these, 20 are among the top 100, and one conquers the top 10, c...
February 5th was the National Prevention Day against food waste. A problem that affects everyone, consumers and businesses. Every year, in the world, we throw away about 121 kilos of food per head. In Europe, 53% of waste occurs within the home, 17% between distribution and retail, 19% during processing. Hence the idea of Too Good To Go, one of the...
Luca Travaglini, co-Ceo and co-founder of Planet Farms, the largest vertical farm in Europe, is the Italian Tech Person of the Year, the person who in 2021 has best used technology to realize his business and have a positive impact on society. Luca has been chosen among 12 finalists, voted by a technical jury and by the audience in the hall and in...
Talent Garden turns 10 and doubles. And becomes the biggest player in digital education in Europe. Those gardens of talent where you can work together, train and connect, born in Brescia (Lombardy) in 2011 and arrived in many parts of Europe, increasingly focus on digital education. And today they announce the acquisition of one of the largest Euro...
18 years ago she moved to Biella (Piedmont) in front of a rice field and, day and night, she saw rice. And seeing the straw burning in the field, she asked herself: what is that waste? Native ecologist and architect, she looked beyond and thought of a solution: how can I recover that waste and turn it into a resource? Italy is the leading rice pro...
Since Apple opened its developer academy in Naples in 2016, about 2,000 students have completed its training programs. And another 3,000 have taken short courses, on basic skills. Today, the company decides to invest again in the Developer Academy in Campania. It has announced that it will extend the programs, designed together with the Federico II...
Enrollment is now open for the second year of 42 Roma Luiss, the coding school, based on a learning by doing model, supported by Luiss and Riccardo Zacconi, the inventor of Candy Crush, based on the French model of École 42. There are no professors, zero lectures, no classes: yet it's a revolutionary coding school, where students learn on the job....