All year long business support in Tokyo, Japan There is a new support service that the EU-Japan Centre is offering free of charges to SMEs wishing to develop or expand their activities in Japan. “STEP IN JAPAN” is a New Logistic Sup...

3/05/2013

There is a network of European regions using space technologies, called Nereus. Veneto Innovazione met Mr Alain Bénéteau president of Nereus to know the goals and activities of such a group. What is the scope of the Network of Eu...

23/04/2013

IGOR VOYTOV: BELARUS AND ITALY HAVE GOOD PROSPECTS FOR COOPERATION IN RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY   Italy is one of the leading European partners of Belarus in the field of research. Belarusian and Italian scientists successfully cooperate in in...

12/02/2013

  OSAIS, “Observatory on State Aid Impact” is an initiative gathering 11 partners from different regions of European Union, which aims to provide the contribution to the regional state aid policies. The Veneto Regional Co...

5/02/2013

Open to students of all disciplines who are at least 18 years old, enrolled at a university, college or equivalent academic institution in one of the European Patent Organisation's member states. Contestants will be asked to define a research...

5/02/2013

A booklet on "Smart Methodology Applied to Nanotechnologies" has been released in the framework of the KEEN Regions project. The publication, edited by Veneto Innovazione, treasures the main results of a 3-year project, addressing the regio...

19/10/2012

Veneto Innovazione will be closed for holiday from December the 24th, 2012 till January the 1st, 2013. The regular activities will resume on January the 2nd, 2013.  ...

31/07/2012

AREA Science Park, Italian leading multi-sector Science and Technology Park, as member of Enterprise Europe Network, in cooperation with Veneto Innovazione organise a technology dating on food/biotech technologies. Before the B2B meetings, thanks...

18/07/2012

Commission launches innovation partnership for Smart Cities and Communities One of the greatest challenges facing the EU is how best to design and adapt cities into smart intelligent and sustainable environments. Almost three quarters of Europeans...

16/07/2012

Date: 10 May 2012 Time: 13:30-17:30 Venue: ACC10 - Catalan Region Office, Rue de la Loi 227, 1000 Brussels The Nanotech WG will organize a brokerage event on 10th May, focusing on the 2013 NMP Work Programme. The event is open for all mem...

27/04/2012

Call for Applications for the Summer School on European-Korean Cooperation in Environmental and Social Sciences - Deadline: 16 May 2012 The KORANET project will organise a Summer School for Korean and European researchers and project managers in t...

24/04/2012

The Interreg IVC project's SMART EUROPE will kick off in Bologna on January 26th! SMART EUROPE is an interregional cooperation project of regional and local authorities and actors. The overall objective of SMART EUROPE is to support re...

24/01/2012

Smart Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Power International Brokerage Event, March 29th 2012, National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham Enterprise Europe Network Midlands invites you to participate in an international brokerage event devoted to hydrogen fuel ce...

23/01/2012

Thanks to Enterprise Europe Network, the main infrastructure of the European Commission offering services to support SMEs innovation and competitiveness, of which Veneto Innovazione is the regional reference for Technology Transfer, it was possible t...

19/01/2012

New EU fundraising rules: boosting venture capital for SMEs and easing access to credit Brussels, 07 December 2011 - Access to finance is essential to enhance the competiveness and growth potential of SMEs. In the context of the current crisis, ma...

19/12/2011

One of the first on-the-spot food allergy tests for dogs is about to hit the market thanks to a partnership set up by the Enterprise Europe Network While allergies among humans are nothing new, you may not know that pets can also suffer from them....

10/11/2011

Veneto Innovazione will participate to the Alps 4 EU kick-off meeting that will take place in Turin on September 19th-20th 2011. Alps4EU, funded by the Alpine Space programme, aims to overcome clusters initiatives fragmentation and favour the emerge...

31/08/2011

The Issue n° 6 of the MINI EUROPE newsletter (July 2011) has been published today on the project website. In this Issue the following arguments are included : 1. Mini Europe final conference 2. Észak-Alföld at&nbs...

27/07/2011

Consultation on a new European regime for Venture Capital   From 15/06/2011 to 10/08/2011 the European Commission organizes a consultation for Venture Capital. The consultation is addressed to investors, asset managers, small and medium size...

22/07/2011

On July the 18th a delegation of the Methodist Hospital Research Institute (TMHRI) in Houston (Texas) met prof. Giorgio Simonetto and the staff dedicated to internationalization and technology transfer at Veneto Innovazione .   The delegation...

18/07/2011

KORANET publishes 'Korea and Europe - Meeting through science' – a compendium of EU-Korean S&T cooperation. The new KORANET publication 'Korea and Europe - Meeting through science' was presented for the first time to...

15/07/2011

The INTERREG IVC project Know-Man has reached its halfway point. It is our pleasure to present its achievements to date to the wider public at the international conference 'Good Practices in Regional Knowledge Network Management and the Need for...

24/06/2011

Vietnam's engineer invents cheap wind-powered generator Mini wind-powered generators made in Vietnam are expected to hit market at cheap prices in the middle of 2012. Tran Quoc Hieu, 24-year-old graduate from a joint engineer training program...

23/06/2011

On April 29th, 2011 the Veneto Region (IT) hosted a “Thematic Seminar on Innovation and Financial Agencies for IPA countries” in Venice. The event was organized in the framework of the SEE-IFA Network project, which aims at strengthening...

31/05/2011

X Prize Foundation Offers $10 Million For a Tricorder to Diagnose Patients Labs-on-a-chip are useful tools for diagnosing diseases, but most can only pick out one or two sickness signatures amid an array of symptoms. The X Prize Foundation...

18/05/2011

Maya Ehrmann writes for No Camels. A t-shirt that tests heart activity, called Niturit has recently been developed by an Israeli-Portuguese team. The t-shirt can test heart activity and transmit the data to a medical center in real time...

12/05/2011

Carbon Nanotubes Coated in Bee Venom Can Detect Even a Single Molecule of Explosives Explosives detection is a hot place for progressive science right now. One Colorado State researcher is breeding plants that change colors when certain...

12/05/2011

On May 11 and 12, 2011, the U.S. Embassy in Italy will host the Digital Economy Forum at the Palazzo della Biennale in Venice. The Forum will bring together American, Italian, and European digital experts, entrepreneurs, marketing directors, and C...

12/05/2011

The Department of Information Engineering - DEI of Padua University organizes The Distinguished Lecturer Series They consists of a numer of seminars held by scholars of international acclaim in their respective fields of research. Admission to the...

26/04/2011

Il Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione dell'Università di Padova organizza l'iniziativa intitolata "Distinguished Lecturer Series". Si tratta di una serie di seminari, tenuti presso il Dipartimento di Ingegner...

26/04/2011

Veneto Innovazione attended the final conference of the Mini Europe project in Valencia (Spain) on April 7th, 2011 that was dedicated to the topic “Mainstreaming policies and funding growth SME’s in European Regions”. This eve...

19/04/2011

Veneto Innovazione took part to the 1st European conference dedicated to the Regional Innovation Agencies was held in Reims (France) on March 29th, 2011.    The event, hosted by CARINNA, the Champagne-Ardenne Research and Innovation Agenc...

18/04/2011

Morocco has launched three new projects, including a €45 million (US$65 million) research fund to encourage partnerships between businesses and inventors, as part of a strategy to boost research and innovation. The country will build fou...

15/04/2011

In the framework of the KORANET project, Veneto Innovazione organized the second "KOREA-EU Cluster Cooperation Workshop” on 22 March 2011, in order to promote collaboration  opportunities between Venetian, Europ...

4/04/2011

The Second Cluster Workshop of the KORANET project, follow up of the first Workshop held in Korea last November, will take place on March 22nd 2011 at NH Laguna Palace Hotel in Mestre.   The project, funded by the European Union in the...

14/03/2011

Small Business Act has seen some successes, but more needs to be done says review   Member states need to step up their efforts in support of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and entrepreneurship, according to a review of progr...

4/03/2011

CHANDIGARH: Punjab, faced with a grim power shortage, is now ushering in a silent technological change - green computing - which can help save energy by use of virtual computer systems that are connected to one master computer.   The Punj...

1/03/2011

Ryan Jacoby heads up IDEO’s New York practice, and gave a talk at NYU/Poly this evening with an intriguing title: Leading Innovation: Process Is No Substitute. It points to the tension found in companies between right-brainers (for lack of a...

25/02/2011

By Kevin Brown Han Zheng, the mayor of Shanghai, has just delivered a pleasant surprise to the city’s workers: their minimum wage is to rise by more than 10 per cent in April. No one will be getting rich – the new rate amounts t...

18/02/2011

"Innovation" - a brand new TV and internet magazine on European research and innovation Brussels, 2 February 2011 To mark the launch of the Innovation Union Flagship Initiative, which is put up for adoption this week by the Feb...

14/02/2011

"Innovation" - a brand new TV and internet magazine on European research and innovation Brussels, 2 February 2011 To mark the launch of the Innovation Union Flagship Initiative, which is put up for adoption this week by the Feb...

14/02/2011

 Providing easier access to funding is key for intensifying research and innovation in Europe, and in turn helps bolster participation, boosts value for money and makes a bigger impact on both the scientific and economic spheres. The European...

11/02/2011

   Providing easier access to funding is key for intensifying research and innovation in Europe, and in turn helps bolster participation, boosts value for money and makes a bigger impact on both the scientific and economic spheres...

11/02/2011

Foreign investments in Africa are strongly increasing as the continent displays one of the world's highest growth numbers. African analysts hold that this is a consequence of improved business environments in Africa. "The attracti...

9/02/2011

The 22-nanometer technology that promises to make computers faster, smaller and lighter is coming out of an Intel Israel plant in Kiryat Gat.   In an unstable business environment, where US companies are scaling back and weathering bad...

7/02/2011

E-books may be replacing hardbound versions in college classrooms.   Harold Elder is not your typical Apple fanboy. Yet the 58-year-old University of Alabama economics professor pre-ordered an iPad to make sure he had one of...

7/02/2011

  The transformation of the book industry has reached a tipping point. Electronic books now outsell paperbacks on Amazon, the retailer recently announced. And Borders, the second-largest bookstore chain in the United States, is r...

7/02/2011

The OECD Patent Database was set up to develop patent indicators that are suitable for statistical analysis and that can help address S&T policy issues. The Patent Database covers data on patent applications to the European Patent Office (EPO), t...

7/02/2011

By Shujie Yao* (China Daily).   China needs to improve its investment mechanism in science and technology and promote more research and development. A recent report claimed that China is going to reach the vanguard of global innovation in 201...

2/02/2011

Last January the 26th, the International Technology Transfer Network (ITTN) was launched in Peking. ITTN promotes international technology transfer and joint growth and means to build up a service platform for international cooperation in technology...

31/01/2011

Last January the 26th, the International Technology Transfer Network (ITTN) was launched in Peking. ITTN promotes international technology transfer and joint growth and means to build up a service platform for international cooperation in technology...

31/01/2011

Big media companies and tech start-ups alike are trying to solve the riddle of how people will read the news in a mobile, digital world — and how publishers will make money from it. The latest to try is Ongo, a two-year-old sta...

25/01/2011

If you follow the news about health research, you risk whiplash. First garlic lowers bad cholesterol, then—after more study—it doesn’t. Hormone replacement reduces the risk of heart disease in postmenopausal women,...

25/01/2011

By CARL ZIMMER [International Herald Tribune Published: January 24, 2011] In the middle of a phone call four years ago, Paula Niedenthal began to wonder what it really means to smile. The call came from a Russian reporter, who was inter...

25/01/2011

The Centre for Technology Transfer was inaugurated in Peking by a delegation of the Italian Innovation Agency composed of the Chairman Mr David Giacalone, the Director-General Mr Mario Dal Co and the Director of the "Italy of Innovators" Mr...

20/01/2011

Dr Paolo Falcaro and Dr Dario Buso represented CSIRO in a meeting with Prof Giorgio Simonetto, president of the board and CEO of Veneto Innovazione.  (pictured l. to r. are Falcaro, Simonetto, Buso)   The meeting was requested throug...

19/01/2011

Huge job-hunting pressure, many requirements for positions, and the desire to pursue a higher degree have pushed more people into the competition of post-graduate entrance exam in 2011. The number of applications reached a record high: 1.5 million...

18/01/2011

Huge job-hunting pressure, many requirements for positions, and the desire to pursue a higher degree have pushed more people into the competition of post-graduate entrance exam in 2011. The number of applications reached a record high: 1.5 million...

17/01/2011

Dr Paolo Falcaro and Dr Dario Buso represented CSIRO in a meeting with Prof Giorgio Simonetto, president of the board and CEO of Veneto Innovazione.  (pictured l. to r. are Falcaro, Simonetto, Buso)   The meeting was requested throug...

17/01/2011