(ANSAmed) - OSAKA, APR 24 - Italy's status as an inventive
country eyeing the future without forgetting its traditions is
at the centre of a new show - 'Italy of Patents. Successful
Innovations and Inventions' - promoted by the Business and Made
in Italy Ministry (Mimit).
The exhibit was inaugurated inside the Italy Pavilion at Expo
2025 Osaka with the participation of Business and Made in Italy
Deputy Minister Valentino Valentini and the Commissioner General
for Italy at the Universal Exhibition, Ambassador Mario Vattani.
"The show looks at the past, but not in a celebratory sense",
explained Valentini, adding that it eyes "the future" because it
"stimulates innovation, the engine of global progress".
In addition to the exhibit, the Business and Made in Italy
Ministry, in cooperation with government investment agency
Invitalia and the Netval research network, has presented the 11
winners of the Intellectual Property Awards (six won the IPA
prize and five the women entrepreneurs awards) - top Italian
players who have made a difference in the field of technological
innovation and in developing patents.
They were selected among the over 3,000 patents present on the
Knowledge Share platform.
"Entering the Italy Pavilion certainly implies seeing art, but
also inventions", stressed Vattani, referring among others to
the oeuvres of Leonardo da Vinci as well as the faithful
reconstruction of the SVA 9, a biplane which in 1920 was flown
from Rome to Tokyo by pilot Arturo Ferrarin and motorist Gino
Cappannini.
They are all present at the Italy Pavilion - the "characteristic
elements of the pavilion, along with the part on
infrastructures, on mobility, on energy", he noted.
Together with Deputy Minister Valentini, the event was also
attended by: Maria Chiara di Guardo, Vice president of Netval;
Ernesto Somma, Head of Investment Management Unit at Invitalia,
Matteo Zoppas, president of the ICE agency, and Federico
Novembrini, Head of Knowledge Share (Netval).
And the deputy minister of Mimit during the event thanked
Netval, "a beacon of excellence in the Italian landscape of
innovations" and "an association that undertakes fundamental
work as a bridge between public research and enterprises - over
161 universities and 10 public research centres, more than 80%
of Italian public researchers".
Valentini also highlighted the relevance of patents in Italy,
with "more than 10,148 patent applications for industrial
inventions" registered in the country in 2024, "up 7.4 on the
previous year".
And ICE President Matteo Zoppas highlighted the impact of
Italian know-how on exports.
"We have grown a lot over the years because we continue to be
interesting abroad, because we aren't only Food, Fashion and
Furniture, as some say, but we are also technology", explained
Zoppas.
He noted that technology is "less visible because it is more
difficult to promote when moving through B2B
(Business-to-business) instead of B2C (Business -to-consumer)",
although Italy "is also strong in this, we also stand out on
technological issues". (ANSAmed).
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