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ALMA MATER STUDIORUM – UNIVERSITA’ DI BOLOGNA

The Regional Research and Innovation Strategies in Emilia-Romagna

(The C.I.R.I. Aeronautics, Space and Mobility)

Alessandro Talamelli Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna

http://www.aeronautica.unibo.it/it


Regional strategy in Emilia Romagna




The High-Technology netwok of the Emilia-Romagna

•  The Emilia-Romagna High Technology Network is made up of industrial research labs and innovation centers, and include Academic Institutions and public Research Centers in the region to provide expertise, tools and resources to the production system.

82 Laboratories

13 Centers for Innovation

1.600 Reseachers (600 new employed)




The platforms

•  Food •  Construction •  Energy & Environment •  Advanced mechanics and materials •  ICT •  Life Sciences

•  Support the development of regional industries

•  Encourage and guide innovation efforts

•  Define international scenarios and the regional trajectories for the development


The 10 Technopoles


Strengths

•  Industrial system highly integrated around a few areas of specialization (highly articulated within them horizontally and vertically)

•  Agricultural system among the most specialized in Europe, oriented to quality products

•  High specialization and focus on product innovation and process by Industrial enterprises

•  Increasing collaborative relationships between companies and Research Laboratories

•  Research system homogeneously distributed and sufficiently integrated with the productive system

•  High propensity to export


Weaknesses

•  Low management level of the enterprises to face the international competition

•  Institutional “stiffness” of the research organizations •  Limited presence of infra-structures of international excellence in

science •  Poor attractiveness for ”excellence" •  Difficulty in growing for innovative and creative start ups •  Lack of competitiveness and weak role of services •  Poor ability of integration between different agricultural

production realities •  Poorly structured presence in international markets


A fourth step

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EMILIA-ROMAGNA SMART SPECIALIZATION STRATEGY


The Regional Smart Specialization Strategy


Priorities

•  Increase the competitiveness of Emilia-Romagna businesses: Strengthen the innovative capacity of Emilia-Romagna’s traditional and competitive production systems: agri-food, building and construction, mechatronics and transport.

•  Support emerging specialisation areas: Develop production systems fostering social innovation with high growth potential: health and life sciences industries, cultural and creative industries.

•  Steer change: Increase the regional system’s capacity to respond to the societal challenges for sustainable development, healthy and active living, and information society.

•  Develop services of excellence: Strengthen the leading role of services for the production system: ICT, logistics, high knowledge activities.


Objectives

Product innovation Product/Market diversification Cross product/technology contamination Value chain reinforcement Product Life Cycle Assessment New forms of clusters Reinforce cooperation between productive and research system Evolution of business models Participation to EU programs: Horizon 2020


The first step

Identification of "spillover areas" of the regional policies for research and innovation

A) areas that represent the fundamental vocations economy and regional identity (consolidated), B) areas that may instead drive the change, create new occupation, respond to new social needs, develop new industries and modern, stimulating innovation processes even in traditional activities by offering new content and new business models (emerging);


Key element for strategic areas

•  Degree of specialization at the national level and competitiveness

•  Occupational relevance •  Territorial pervasiveness •  Export capacity and international projection •  Ability to deal with social and technological challenges

Technology foresight and Enterpreneurial discovery


The RER Key cluster (consolidated and emerging)

•  5 specialization areas (3 strategical and 2 high-potential) –  Agrifood 16.7% –  Construction 18.8% –  Mechatronics 18.2%

more than 1.000.000 employers (approx 50% of the total) 80% of the RER export


Platforms

Clusters

Advanced mechanics

and materials

Food Construction Life sciences

Energy & Environmen

t ICT

AgrIfood

Construction

Mechatronics-Automotive

Health Industries

Cultural and Creative Industries

Regional platforms and S3 Clusters


The second step

Implement the key enabling technologies in the productive system a) Through the High Technology Network, organized in thematic platforms, which should serve as a link between the KETs and the regional industrial areas; b) By encorauging and promoting the creation of high tech start-ups and their rapid integration in networks and in the industrial systems


Key Enabling Technologies

• Nanotechnologies • New Materials • Industrial biotechnologies • Microelectronics • Photonics • New industrial processes • Digital technologies/wireless


KETs & Regional platforms

Platforms

KETs

Advanced mechanics

and materials

Food Construction

Life sciences

Energy & Environment ICT

Nanotechnologies

New materials

Microelectronics

Photonics

Industrial biotechnologies

Process technologies

Digital technologies


Startup hi-tech

• Biotech, biomaterials • Micro-nanotech, advanced materials • Software/Multimedia • Green technologies • Aerospace • New services


Start ups High Tech

Clusters

Nanotech/advanced materials

BiotechBiomaterials

Software/Multimedia

Green technologies Aerospace New services

Agrifood

Construction

Mechatronics-Automotive

Health Industries

Cultural and Creative Industries

Start ups high-tech regional clusters


The third step

highlight the need for changes expressed by the society (innovation drivers) that can push to adopt new technologies and languages, and helping to convert and boost the productive system.

•  Sustainability (energy, environment, safety, mobility) •  Healthy and active life (health, wellness, active

ageing, disabilities) •  Information and communication society (connectivity,

multimedia, new services, systems management)


Logical scheme for the S3 Strategy

KETs

Regional High Tech Network

Consolidated and emerging clusters

Innovation drivers

Start ups hi-tech


The RER Key cluster (consolidated and emerging)


Mechatronics and transport systems

- industries for the processing of metals; - Metal and carpentry productions, simple mechanics; - Engine; - Hydraulics, power generators; - Agricultural mechanics; - Sports cars, motorcycles, boats and related components; - aerospace - Mechanical industry (for food, construction and productions of materials, woodworking, plastic, machine tools, automation and robotics); - Electro-mechanical; - Precision engineering for signaling, control, diagnosis; - Electromedical; - Other electromechanical industries for domestic use; - Logistics, distribution, service; - Software, engineering and computing.


The trajectories

•  Attempt to identify those trajectories of innovation able to redirect systems to new challenges and new market scenarios

•  to increase the added value inherent in the products and their competitiveness on the market.

•  They are “technological priorities” •  Grouped in “thematic orientations”


The trajectories


CIRI Aeronautics and the trajectories


C.I.R.I. Aeronautics

Interdipartmental Centre for Industrial Research “Aeronautics, Space and Mobility”

26 researchers from UNIBO 6 full-time researchers

–  D.I.N. Department of Industrial Engineering –  D.E.I. Department of Electric and Information

Technology Engineering «Guglielmo Marconi» –  D.I.F.A. Department of Physics and Astronomy


Tecnopolo di Forlì Cesena

–  CIRI Aeronautics Space and Mobility –  CIRI ICT – Information and communications technology –  CIRI Agrifood


Operative Units

•  Two operative units:

– Fluid dynamics – Mechanics and

technologies applied to Aeronautics, Space and Mobility


The Aeronautical Technopole

ENAV ACADEMY

HANGAR UNIVERSITÀ AEROPORTO

SCUOLE di VOLO SEDE DIDATTICA

UNIVERSITÀ


The new laboratories

•  Tunnels “Ex Caproni” in Predappio - CICLoPE laboratory

•  University of Bologna


The new laboratories

•  CIRI laboratory in the Polo Aeronautico of Forlì


Main characteristics

•  aimed at the development of industrial research projects with companies

•  aimed at the development of products/demonstrators and services

•  strongly interdisciplinar •  localized in the territory •  aimed at encouraging the set-up of spin-

off


Tecnology transfer

•  Sectors of the technology transfer – aerospace; – energetic; – advanced mechanics; – sensors; – nautical; – ground vehicles; –  information and Communication Technology – mobility.


Prototypes and Demonstrators

•  The “Long Pipe” at CICLoPE •  Vertical Axis Wind Generator •  ALMA Sat 1/ALMA Space •  Models for crack propagations •  Hardware-in-the-loop systems for validation

and testing •  Models for the combustion in rockets •  Multirotor for Aerial Photography •  Systems for interactive visualization and

interaction •  Prototypes of interfaces for Air Traffic

Management systems •  Models for pedestrian mobility •  Patents


Prototypes and Demonstrators

•  The “Long Pipe” at CICLoPE •  Vertical Axis Wind Generator •  ALMA Sat 1/ALMA Space •  Models for crack propagations •  Hardware-in-the-loop systems for validation

and testing •  Models for the combustion in rockets •  Multirotor for Aerial Photography •  Systems for interactive visualization and

interaction •  Prototypes of interfaces for Air Traffic

Management systems •  Models for pedestrian mobility •  Patents


CIRI Aeronautics and

start-up

The project ALMA-SPACE

A “Case study”


Background ALMASat-1

ALMASat-1 is the first microsatellite for educational purposes entirely designed, manufactured and assembled at the University of Bologna:

•  The project began in 2003 with the development and the realization of a ground station for receiving data and the tracking of satellites,

•  Implementation of numerous hardware and software tools necessary for the design phase

•  All subsystems of the satellite were made entirely from scratch through work placement / thesis (more than 30 students involved) or research activities dedicated

•  Scientific objective: in-orbit tests of an innovative micropropulsion system


Background ALMASat-1 System Integration


ALMASat-1 Launch

Integrated into the "payload" of the inaugural flight of the carrier VEGA ESA and launched February 13, 2012 from the Guiana Space Centre


ALMASpace

ALMASpace was founded in 2005 by the will of a research group composed of professors, researchers, graduate and undergraduate students of the II Faculty of Engineering, University of Bologna, to bring in the market the knowledge acquired during the academic experience.

At the end of a process of significant growth, in terms of skills and market, in January 2014 the company has been sold; The ALMASpace LTD became part of the Angelo Investments (SITAEL), a financial holding composed of high-tech companies; ALMASpace has become an industrial reality consolidated in Forli, where they still have laboratories and the headquarter


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Prof. Alessandro Talamelli

Director C.I.R.I. Aeronautica [email protected]

Prof. Davide Moro

Vice Director – [email protected]

Prof. Fabrizio Ponti Scientific Responsible UO Fluidodinamica

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Prof. Paolo Tortora Scientific Responsible UO Meccanica e tecnologie applicate all'aeronautica, spazio e mobilità

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