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Innovation
in traditional sector SMEs
in Tuscany
by Francesco Gravina - Regione Toscana
Department of economic development
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2002
General information
Area sq km
Population millions
GDP 2001 billions euro
GDP 2001 on 2000
Employment 2001 on
2000
Unemployment 2001
Tuscany
23.000
3,5
Italy
301.000
57,5
%
7,6
6,1
130
1,7 %
1,0 %
1.523
1,7 %
1,5 %
8,5
0
-0,5
5,1 %
9,5 %
-4,4
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Distribution of enterprises
by number of employees
Classes
1-19
Tuscany
34,0
NEC
17,4
Italy
19,5
20-49
40,4
35,3
35,8
50-99
14,3
25,2
22,3
100-199
7,7
13,8
12,9
200-499
2,4
6,2
6,5
500 and over
1,2
2,1
3,0
100,0
100,0
100,0
TOTAL
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Localized sector of Tuscan industry
 Sectors of a large size in absolute terms and of
importance as compared to national competitors
(textiles, clothing and knitted goods, pulp and paper,
footwear)
 Sectors of a small size in absolute terms but of
importance as compared to national competitors
(leather goods, tanning, gold and jewelry articles,
marble, etc.)
 Sectors of a small size in absolute terms and of scant
weight (niche sectors) as compared to national
competitors (the various compartments of mechanical
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engineering, pharmaceuticals,
ceramics, etc.).
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The birth of high-tech sectors
of Tuscan industry
Came about in three main waves dating back:
1. to the first half of the century and regards the group of
enterprises of larger size; these are firms belonging to
the earliest phase of Italian industrialization, financed
with both public and private capital, the ownership of
which lies prevalently outside the Region;
2. to around the sixties, involved machinery-building
firms; these are the units which were driven by the
process of industrialization of the sixties and the
seventies;
3. to the period 1970-1990, a cluster of firms operating
above all in the sector of ICT, optics and electronics.
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R&D of enterprises
by number of employees in 1997
Classes
1-19
20-49
50-99
100-249
250 and over
TOTAL
Tuscany
3,7
7,6
NEC
4,9
9,5
Italy
4,5
8,9
16,1
20,1
34,6
100,0
20,6
30,3
46,2
100,0
17,0
26,0
40,4
100,0
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R&D personnel
for research and enterprises in 1998
Tuscany
1.929
North-Centre
26.379
Italy
31.023
1.930
55.800
61.117
3.859
82.179
92.140
Public research
bodies
6,2
85,0
100,0
Business enterprises
3,2
91,3
100,0
Total
4,2
89,2
100,0
Public research
bodies a
Business enterprises
Total
a Universities excluded
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R&D Expenditure
Business Enterprise Sector (% of GDP)
140
GDP per inhabitant
(EUR 12=100)
Emilia Ro magna
Lo mbardy
No rdrhein-Westfalen
120
B erlin
Veneto
T us c a ny
B retagne
100
Languedoc
Ro ussilon
P iedmo nt
Rheinland-P falz
Ile de France
A uvergne
Catalunya M adrid
80
Castilla Y Leo n
60
0
0,5
1
1,5
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2
2,5
3
R&D Expenditure
Government Sector (% of GDP)
140
Lombardy
GDP per inhabitant
(EUR 12=100)
Emilia Romagna
120
Veneto
Piedmont
Ile de France
T uscany
100
Bretagne
Catalunya
M adrid
Auvergne
80
Languedoc-Roussilon
Castilla Y Leon
60
0
0,1
0,2
0,3
0,4
0,5
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0,6
0,7
0,8
Geography of the research system
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Three Universities: Florence, Pisa and Siena
Two special academic institutions: Scuola Normale
Superiore and Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa
The Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – CNR
The Istituto Nazionale di Ottica Applicata
INOA
The Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare – INFN
The Istituto Nazionale di Fisica della Materia INFM
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Support to innovation
and to technology transfer
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Centres providing services to sectors
Tecnotessile – Promomoda – Ceseca – Internazionale marmi
e macchine – Polo scientifico di Navacchio
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Centres for incubation and animation
BIC
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Centres for innovation and technology transfer
Consorzio Pisa Ricerche – Etruria Innovazione – Pontech –
Lucense
Firenze Tecnologia
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Structures offering financial services
Fidi Toscana – MPS Merchant
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The regional policy for innovation
1. The RITTS Tuscany exercise
2. The RIS+ pilot project Technologies for
cultural heritage
3. The TRIP project Applicom
4. The Innovative Actions
5. The ERDF Objective 2 Programme
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The RITTS Tuscany exercise
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Assessment of the regional policy
Analysis of the structure and trends of
regional economy by means of demand and
requirement for innovation of enterprises,
scientific and technological supply
Guidelines of a regional strategy for
innovation and organizational model and
tools for the implementation of the strategy
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The RITTS Tuscany exercise Action
Plan
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Objective A: support to innovation of traditional
SMEs: valuation of experiences / targeting of system
innovation / projects for external dissemination
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Objective B: creation of innovative clusters:
identification of priorities / demonstration projects / creation of
mixed R&D laboratories / internationalization
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Objective C: creation and consolidation of small
high-tech enterprises:
sensitization of, and support to, human resources
scouting/economic intelligence
definition and setting-up of financial tools
high-tech incubators
marketing of scientific-technological supply
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The RIS+ Tuscany pilot project
Technologies for cultural heritage
Project objectives
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To aggregate a cluster - competitive at the international level integrating the competencies which are available in the
different sectors which manage cultural patrimony: research,
business and public institutions.
To develop demonstration prototypes of optoelectronic
technology for use in cultural heritage and their examination
at work in diagnostic research pilot sites.
Project results
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New optoelectronic technologies (laser for restoration, 3D and
laser scanner, IR high resolution scanner, environmental
monitoring)
Technology evaluation and pilot sites in Italy, Europe and USA
Market opportunities / partnership / promotion and
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Project phases and methodology
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Analysis and identification of the main
participant agents to be successful in the
definition of the project.
Establishment of a co-ordination system
between the involved agents: a cluster of
Innovation based on technology transfer
Survey on possibilities and opportunities
Identification of the concrete actions to be
implemented.
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Project start point: handicaps
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Lack of integration between scientific and technical
competencies in research centres and industry and
the expertise of cultural heritage professionals.
Intervention methods are not always based on
diagnostic investigations
Lack of protocols
Lack of knowledge of the real opportunities of the
market
need of specialised information
Traditional characteristics of the sector versus
innovation, particularly in the case of the
Institutions in charge of the heritage preservation
and management.
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Project main actors
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The Tuscany Regional Authority
National government central bodies (Ministry for
cultural activities and heritage, Foreign affairs
Ministry, University and Scientific and Technological
Research Ministry)
National Research organisation (National Research
Council - CNR), Institute of applied optics (INOA),
etc.
University departments
Opificio della Pietre Dure e Centro di restauro della
Soprintendenza archeologica della Toscana
Private enterprises of the sector (industries and
service providers).
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Project strategy and objectives
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Collaboration between public and private agents to
transfer knowledge from research centres to companies
in order to produce high-tech optoelectronic products
and innovative services in the field of cultural heritage.
Production of prototypes, based on technology transfer,
successfully experimented in laboratories, and then
validated on masterworks of arts and architectures.
Collaboration to carry out specific experiences and to
generate a trust environment.
The final objective is to develop new products and
services allowing technological applications to be
diffused on a regional, national and international basis.
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Project results
Sectors
Technologies
Pilote sites
Diagnosis of paintings
IR Scanner
Works of Masaccio and
Masolino in Europa and USA
Diagnosis of monuments
Georadar
Camposanto Monumentale di
Pisa and Toledo Cathedral
Environment monitoring
Indoor monitoring in
museums
Galleria degli Uffizi
Documentation
3D Scanning
Minerva di Arezzo
Conservation and restoration
Laser
La Porta del Paradiso del
Battistero di Firenze
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IR Scanner
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Indoor monitoring in museums
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3D Scanning
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Laser for conservation
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Main strong points of the process
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Integration competencies between research centre, service and
production companies, restoration laboratories and institutions in
the cultural heritage field
Commitment between interested agents, assuring their active
involvement and the participation of the different levels of
responsibility
Co-ordination and direction role played by the Regional authority
Active collaboration between public and private sector in order to
consolidate research, products and services
Detailed analysis of the real opportunities existing for new
technologies
Active participation of research centres
Active involvement of companies
Interest of public authorities to integrate innovative solutions for
management of the cultural heritage
Promotion and cooperation
with national and foreign
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organizations.
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Technological Innovation in Tuscany - ITT
Regional programme of innovative Actions
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Dissemination process of technological development
within the regional economy through the creation of cooperation networks among businesses, research
centres and universities, local public institutions, centres
for technological innovation and transfer, business
advisory services, training centres and financial
organisations.
Integration of scientific, technological and industrial
skills in the more developed areas of the region with the
resources present in the areas that will benefit from the
ERDF financing
Reproducible innovation dissemination methodologies,
to be used in the
of the ERDF Objective 2
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Programme
ITT Project - Optocantieri
Project
Pilot sites
Results
presentation
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Evaluation
Partners of Optocantieri
Service
providers
Manufacturer
s
Project
Pilot site
Cultural
institutions
Results
presentation
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Technology
upgrade
Evaluation
OPD Research
ICR Centres