Competitives Advantages
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IT industry: Italy ranks 2nd for number of companies after the UK, and ahead of France and Germany with 97.000 active companies and 390.000 employees.
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Technical Education: Italy boasts highly-qualified human resources drawn from a rich vein of creative talent in each area of knowledge and research, including almost 45.000 graduates in ICT-related disciplines every year. In Engineering alone, there are 165.000 students and 29.000 graduate engineers each year (Source: Ministry of Education, University and Research).
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R&D Competencies: A wide range of university centers and public institutes are actively engaged in this field, working in close collaboration with leading multinationals such as STMicroelectronics, Alcatel-Lucent, Siemens, Pirelli, Micron, and Cisco Systems.
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R&D Centers: Number of many organizations oriented toward knowledge transfer services for businesses, including some 32 Science and Technology Parks, Business Innovation Centers, Regional Competence Centers and NETVALL, the Italian Network of University Technology Transfer Offices.
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Pubblic Commitment Italian Authorities, both at central and local level, are currently managing several initiatives within the E-Gov Plan for 2012 by Italy’s Ministry for Public Administration and Innovation, which will result in strongly increased public procurement of ICT services and products.
