From Boston to Siena: a modern silk road
Livio Valenti , from Tuscany, is the only Italian named by Forbes Magazine’s ‘30 under 30’ list as one of the most influential leaders in the science and healthcare category (2014).
IHI outsources to San Giminiano, the new excavators are a go
San Giminiano, province of Yokohama. The now ten-year partnership between the Siena-based Imer group, which produces construction equipment and concrete mixers, and IHI Corporation, the Japanese colossus, takes an important step forward for the Asian group’s commitment in Tuscany, and for the future of the jv: in fact, since last month the outsourcing from Japan to Italy of a part of IHI’s production of heavy equipment became a concrete reality.
Footwear, Tuscany exports 1.7 billion Euros per year
“Made in Tuscany” footwear increased their presence abroad and total exports for 1.74 billion Euros in 2013
The S. Anna scientific hub takes the first steps
A scientific hub that spans a 45,000 sq m surface area, with a 32,000 sq m real-estate complex that can be developed, and an economic commitment estimated at approximately 100 million
“Pisa’s” elderly-friendly robots advance towards phase 2
The Robot-Era has commenced. This is the name of the project born in the Robotics Institute at the [Istituto di Robotica] Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa, that provides elderly individuals with a special assistant for their everyday lives – a robot assistant
At Sesto Fiorentino (Florence) the first jatropha biorefinery
On April 16th Agroils inaugurates a biorefinery demo-plant for producing industrial oil and other components from jatrofa, a non-food plant. Agroils is a young biotech company in the biofuels sector, established in 2011 at Incubatore Firenze. It is the first SpA (company limited by shares) registered as an Italian ‘innovative start-up’.