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’.
The future of Prada, the global luxury brand with 3.6 billion in profits, will pass through Central Italy, and specifically through Tuscany and the Marche region, where the group has decided to invest in order to broaden its productive capacity in the next three years
Geothermal power is the flagship of the Italian renewable energy industry
Economic Development through Local and Inclusive Empowerment
D-Orbit, a start-up from Florence developing devices for space debris mitigation, opened in March 2014 a development center in Lisbon (Portugal)
Gold is not the only Tuscan export to do well in the world. In fact, the 2013 statistics published by the ISTAT (National Statistics Institute) seem to indicate the opposite
Steps forward through Tuscan waters for the wave energy converter, the device to convert marine waves into electric current that has been under development since 2007 by 40South Energy, a Pisa based company founded by the innovative energy’s thinker, Michele Grassi
Tax breaks and one year visas to render start ups in Italy attractive
Recovery for the tertiary and productive sectors, a slight upturn for the commercial, while adjacencies (storage units, parking spaces, and garages) keep suffering
Research centers, companies and investors throughout Europe and beyond will participate in the 1st edition of Meet in ITaly for Life Sciences (MIT-LS2014)