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Enel doesn't do grid edge halfway. The Italian utility-turned-global-renewable-energy-developer rolled out smart meters to 100 percent of its Italian home and business customers in 2001 -- and achieved payback on the investment within four years. Nearly every utility is turning to renewable energy, but Enel's green power division has installed 36 g...

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Quante divisioni ha l'Italia in Silicon Valley? Due. Sono infatti solo due le grandi aziende italiane nel distretto mondiale dell'innovazione. La fotografia assai impietosa si ricava dal primo rapporto "European corporation innovation outposts in Silicon Valley" presentato oggi a San Francisco da Startup Europe Comes to Silicon Valley (SEC2SV) e Mi...

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Milleduecentoventi chilometri l’ora! «La velocità è inaudita. I fiori ai lati della via non son più fiori, sono macchie, anzi sono strisce rosse o bianche. Le città, i campanili e gli alberi danzano e si perdono follemente nell’orizzonte». Solo la stupefatta meraviglia di Victor Hugo, che provò il brivido delle prime locomotive a quindici chilometr...

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EasyDial with its portable machine Dharma, wants to improve patients quality of life. The company was set up by an Italian engineer in the US but is opening its new facilities in Italy. For people on dialysis, a simple, personalized, home-based program can make life much easier and help manage their condition. EasyDialThat’s the goal of EasyDial an...

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An innovative startup is breathing new life in the world’s most ancient wheat. This is the goal of Nutracentis, a small company in Sarnico, near the northern Italian city of Bergamo, which since 2015 buys and processes the ancient grain to make dry pasta. The idea came from co-founder Monia Caramma: after studying correlations between nutrients, sh...

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The Italian startups scene keeps growing and, like every year, we would like to spot a top ten list of the most promising Italian startups. Some of these italian startups, selected by Business Insiders, were rewarded during the “Start up Day 2016” at the Bocconi University in Milan, one of the most important University in Italy in the field of econ...

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Amanda Carye stumbled on the idea for her shoe company, Idoni, when she moved to Italy for a six-month business course. Strolling past gelato stands and chapels in Venice, she came across shops selling furlane, a slipper invented during the Second World War, when resources were scarce. At the time, Italian shoemakers—whose craft is still passed dow...

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Produrre olio extravergine di oliva a casa, come se si stesse preparando il caffè, non è un'utopia: una giovane start up calabrese ha ideato il primo robot in grado di trasformare le olive in olio extravergine appena premuto. Si chiama "Revoilution" e, come suggerisce il nome, propone una vera e propria rivoluzione: i suoi obiettivi sono quelli di...

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Maria Teresa Cometto (journalist and author of "Tech and the City") Riccardo Luna (journalist and author of "Cambiamo tutto" ) Riccardo Viale (moderator, director of the Italian Cultural Institute) Introduction by Riccardo Lattanzi (professor at NYU and co-chairman of the NY Chapter of the Italian Scientists and Scholar in North America Foundation)...

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«Ho sete», oppure «Quest'inverno fa proprio caldo»: incredibile pensare che a inviare questi messaggi possa essere una pianta.   Invece accade con Lifely, startup sarda che mira a trasformare gli «oggetti intelligenti» dell'internet of things in oggetti socialmente connessi, che comunicano attraverso i social network. La pianta che ti scrive...

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