Title:
Innovazione e Cooperazione Tecnologica nei Distretti Industriali Italiani
Description:
RT 13; This report covers an experience of about 30 years in promoting technological cooperation in Italian industrial districts, and in particular in districts producing taps and valves with positive results, and in a district producing households with negative results. The article describes how multiclient methodologies and management, used by contract research organizations for an international clientele composed by great and multinational industries, has been transferred and adapted to the dimension and capabilities of industrial district firms. The problem of technological innovation in SMEs is represented by lacking of funds for R&D, but it is also accompanied by difficulties in the identification of the real interesting technological innovations for a development. That has made necessary to carry out in industrial districts preliminary studies on the type of technological innovations that are of interest for a cooperation. In the 30 years of activity have been carried out four studies about the needs of technology innovation, the first at the beginning in 1996, about problems of materials in contact with drinking water, the second in 2006 on new materials and surface treatments for taps and valves production, the third in 2008 concerning the household industry, and the fourth in 2022 concerning the digital and environmental transitions interesting the tap and valves industry. These studies, with the exception of that about household industry, have generated a certain number of identified R&D projects after carried out as multiclient studies.
Publisher:
CNR Ircres
Date:
2023
