Spoke 5 stands at the intersection of research and market acting as a mediator between research and market, unleashing the potential of scientific discoveries and allowing companies to enhance technological progress, promoting collaboration, knowledge exchange and technology transfer.
Spoke 5 plays a fundamental role in promoting innovation and economic growth within the robotics and artificial intelligence ecosystem.
With this purpose Spoke 5 has built an acceleration journey program which provides a schematic representation of the technological road to market through five programs to create a seamless path to help researchers and SMEs to successfully bring their ideas and technologies to market, ultimately fostering a thriving innovation ecosystem.
The Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) is a private foundation established in 2003with the aim of stimulating the country’s technological development and high-level technological education in Italy, thereby fostering the development of the national production system.
IIT operates in four research domains: Robotics, Nanomaterials, Life Sciences Technologies and Computational Sciences, with a multidisciplinary approach aimed at attracting talent from all over the world and using AI in all research and its application.
Andrea Pagnin is the head of the Innovation and Development Office of the Italian Institute of Technology within the Technology Transfer Directorate dealing with innovative projects of strategic and macroeconomic value for technological and knowledge transfer.