Annual report 2004 - Compagnia di San Paolo

The Mario Boella Institute
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Wireless with the aim of fostering the internationalization of enterprises on the territory.
The Mario Boella Advanced Institute is a major advocate of the ICT development, particularly of
the increase of research activities because they stand for one of the possible territorial answers to
the decrease in regional and national competitiveness. It is therefore strongly committed to the
Turin Wireless District, listing as important partners several public institutions (Ministry of
Research, Piedmont Regional Authorities, Turin Province, Turin Municipality, Turin Chamber of
Commerce), and leading private companies (Alenia, FIAT, Motorola, STMicroelectronics, Telecom
Italia), banks and banking foundations (SanPaoloIMI, Unicredit, Compagnia di San Paolo,
Fondazione CRT) and, last but not least, Unione Industriale (Industrial Union), Turin University and
Polytechnic.
In this field research, supported by the Compagnia di San Paolo, is linked to the European Galileo
project, with the participation of: Turin institutions and industries operating in the sector of satellite
transmitters; Intelligent Transport System (transport telematics), to package and microsystems.
Added to this are a number of activities carried out with the Turin Wireless District partners, whose
objective is to patent research results and to give support and innovative contributions to SMEs in
Piedmont.