. SPOKE 5
Transfer of knowledge and technology
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.
. COORDINATION
IIT
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.
. COORDINATOR
Andrea Pagnin
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.
Spoke Affiliation
News
AI and logistics: RAISE hosts Smart Routes event
On Thursday, June 26, the Talent Garden in Genoa hosted the fifth event of the P2 | BASIC AI & ROBOTICS APPLICATIONS4SMEs project, pa...
Robotics and AI for social innovation: at Imperia, the Officinae RAISE Bootcamp rewards technology in service of the elderly
From June 3rd to 6th, the Bootcamp of the P3 Officinae RAISE project took place in Imperia. This initiative, promoted by the University o...
AI in business operations at the core of the P2 project seminar, part of the Spoke 5 Training Program
On June 10, at the Talent Garden in Genoa, the fourth seminar dedicated to AI-based applications in business operations took place, organ...
Artificial Intelligence for operational efficiency in SMEs within the Training Program of Spoke 5
On June 10th, at the Talent Garden in Genoa, the next event of the P2 | BASIC AI & ROBOTICS APPLICATIONS4SMEs project, part of the Tr...
Officinae RAISE Boot Camp Kicks Off
On Wednesday, June 4, 2025, in the Graduation Hall of the Department of Economics at the University of Genoa – Darsena Campus ̵...
P4 by RAISE presented: a new program for digital citizenship education
On June 3rd, the official presentation of the educational project P4 – Basics AI & Robotics Skills at University Level took place a...
RAISE up: business models presented by teams during “Market Meets Research” event
On Wednesday, May 28, starting at 2:30 PM, the Sala Cuspide at the Genova Blue District hosted “Market Meets Research”, the third eve...
University of Genoa and Confindustria Imperia together for the Project P3 - OFFICINAE RAISE
As part of the Training Program of the RAISE project, Spoke 5 promotes a collaboration between the University of Genoa and Confindustria ...
RAISE’s Spoke 5 brings the inSPAIR project to schools: an educational journey to imagine the future and understand the present
On Wednesday, May 7th, 2025, at the Steam International High School in Parma, the pre-pilot project inSPAIR was launched—an innovative ...
Artificial Intelligence and SMEs: third meeting of the BASIC AI & ROBOTICS APPLICATIONS4SMEs project concluded
On May 8, the third in-person meeting of the P2 | BASIC AI & ROBOTICS APPLICATIONS4SMEs project took place. The initiative, an integr...
New RAISE website section Observatory now online
The new Observatory section of the RAISE website is now online. Developed as part of Spoke 5, the initiative aims to support technology t...
BotBid: a RAISE project of participatory science for the ecological and digital transition
BotBid is an innovative initiative promoted by an interdisciplinary group from the University of Genoa (DISTAV and DIBRIS) within the STA...