Companies and Knowledge Subjects (Universities and Research Centers) that adopt the innovative network model participate in RIBES-Nest to increase the development of sectors with high innovative content.
Since 1994, Fondazione Città della Speranza has aimed to improve the conditions of care and assistance for children and to support scientific research in the oncological and pediatric fields. Thanks to constant fundraising activities, it has raised approximately 60 million euros over time. Of these, 23 million have been invested in scientific research and 750,000 euros are allocated each year to the advanced diagnostics of the Pediatric Oncohematology Clinic of Padua, a national reference center for the diagnosis of leukemia, lymphomas, and sarcomas within the Italian Association of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology. To develop its mission more effectively, the Foundation inaugurated its own Pediatric Research Institute in Padua in 2012. With its 17,500 square meters, it is the largest European hub dedicated to research on childhood diseases. To date, it hosts approximately 300 researchers, distributed across 15 laboratories, who treat pediatric pathologies from different perspectives to multiply the chances of success in terms of new discoveries. The most represented research areas are pediatric oncology, regenerative medicine, and nanomedicine.
For 65 years, CUOA has been training the managerial and entrepreneurial class. It is the leading Business School in the Northeast, among the most important in Italy, and operates in the national and international markets with training courses that respond to current professional challenges and promote the development of new business models. It pays constant attention to the value of people, the importance of merit in economic and social life, and the ethical dimension of every economic action. The CUOA Partner has worked for years with companies and professionals in the biotech and healthcare sectors, with the aim of enhancing the importance of developing managerial skills to support and complete the technical dimension, also thanks to the significant experience of the Master in Business Biotechnology. The involvement of the CUOA Partner within the network will contribute to supporting the world of research and science in the development of structured managerial and entrepreneurial skills that are applicable in terms of corporate governance, typical business mechanisms, and active contribution to production and strategic choices for growth.
The organization was inaugurated in 2000 and today represents one of the centers of excellence in the field of basic scientific research, with initiatives of all kinds in the field of cellular and molecular biology. VIMM conducts translational research, which brings science, pure research, and medical application closer together, in order to use laboratory discoveries in the most appropriate and rapid way. One of the Foundation’s strengths is the organization’s flexibility in using its professional and financial resources toward research needs in molecular medicine, a characteristic that also allows the facility to attract important collaborations with other research centers of international significance. A fundamental contribution to the network will be to increase knowledge and the development of joint collaborations between corporate partners and research centers specialized in pathologies (including metabolic ones) involving the central nervous system that can be studied through molecular research paths and processes.
The National Research Council (CNR) is a national public research organization with multidisciplinary expertise, supervised by the Ministry of University and Research (MUR). Founded in 1923, its task is to carry out scientific research projects in the main sectors of knowledge and to apply the results for the development of the country, promoting innovation, the internationalization of the “research system,” and fostering the competitiveness of the industrial system. The areas of intervention are manifold: human and planetary health, environment and energy, food and sustainable agriculture, transport and production systems, ICT, green chemistry and new materials, marine environment, and aerospace. But also human sciences and protection of cultural heritage, social sciences, bioethics, quantum sciences and technologies, artificial intelligence, and enabling technologies. Approximately 8,500 employees work within the CNR, including over 7,000 researchers and technologists active throughout the national territory, including in the Padua Research Area. The scientific network consists of approximately 90 Institutes and seven Departments organized by macro-thematic areas. An important contribution to research comes from consolidated collaborations, including international ones, with university researchers and with multiple sectors of the business world.