Tuscany, for centuries in the future
ICT
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You know • How difficult it can be to have access to a unit of programmers and specialists, of all levels of training and experience, with proven vertical skills. • The importance of finding a place where to produce devices and realize solutions and systems with advanced and avant-garde technologies of international level, but at competitive costs. • How strategic it is to work closely with companies that offer high-level software, hardware, and IT solutions for knowledge-intensive industries: photonics, optoelectronics, robotics, telecommunications, artificial intelligence, and aerospace.
in Tuscany you can! • Have access to an ICT research system concentrated between Florence, Pisa and Siena, with over 50 laboratories, 15 research centres, 7 university departments, 4 business incubators for ICT companies and 2 centres of excellence Florence, Pisa and Siena. • Find 3 Universities of which two ranked in the top 200 in the world, involved in research and development in the ICT sector, with a total of 19,000 students specializing in the scientific field. • Get in touch with a lively entrepreneurial, widespread and articulated fabric in the ICT sector, which operates across sectors, services and activities in all areas of the supply chain.
excellence grows up
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Since Tuscany is ranked the fourth region of Europe of the Future 2020/2021 for its attractive potential (Financial Times, February 2020), and it is one of the natural places of settlement of new initiatives and productive activities in the sector from all over the world. A highly specialized landscape that counts important industrial, service and technological presences to constitute a specialized platform of global level, at the service of the most diversified economic segments.
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• The Tuscan ICT system is one of the most important hubs at European and international level in the segments of robotics and automation, bioinformatics, IT for management, Media Entertainment, Open Source and Open Data, Aerospace Technology, Telecommunications. • The ICT sector in Tuscany has over 4,300 companies with over 16,000 employees and a total turnover of 3 billion euros. • Tuscan companies are strongly orientated to Smart Manufacturing in which technologies and ICT skills play a crucial role: about 1,600 companies, with 27,000 employees that constitute a market area of value.
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YOGITECH
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BORRI BTICINO
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SIRIO PANEL SELEX ES
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in a land where The high concentration of production and research settlements guarantees a favourable context to inclusion in value chains and activation of partnerships between companies. Tuscany is studded with a widespread network of competence centres, production plants and advanced research and development facilities, some of them among the first in the world. All at the service of entrepreneurs and operators active in the ICT sector, from whatever country they come from, whatever their size is, regardless of their level of maturation. A widespread and extensive distribution with some points of natural concentration where affinities, complementarity and integration of the various subjects, including service networks, have given rise to specific clusters.
Tuscany’s level of specialization in the ICT sector compared to Europe exceeds the continental averages, especially in terms of integration between services and cross-sector solutions.
Tuscany ÂŤRevealed Comparative Advantage IndexÂť compared to Europe (Europe level = 1) TLC / ICT
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Dynamic companies in the supply chain All companies in the supply chain
first-class standards • The Tuscan industry of the sector has important dimensions on an international scale, representative on a national level for the extension of its competences, with companies that operate extensively in the field of development and design on a global level. • A diverse landscape of specializations both vertical and cross to sectors and application areas, with some regional segments of other industries leading the way: big data, ICT for management, multimedia entertainment, open source and open data, aerospace technology, telecommunications.
Subsector detail Software production, IT consulting and related activities Information service activities and other IT services
Turnover
26% 3€B
4,300
16,000
Digital & ICT
ongoing EU Project
Firms 67%
74%
36% software
Companies
22% hardware 35% services 7% infrastructure
52%
4,300
48%
Information service activities and other IT services contributes to DIGITAL & ICT by 52%
18%
Optoelectronics & Photonics
11%
Innovative service
Employees 124
71,5 € B
Tuscany
29 M
euro of EU contributions
23
projects coordinated by Tuscan institutions
3
universities involved in Digital & ICT R&D
3€B
640
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suit your needs. The Tuscan economic fabric can meet all the different investment and expansion needs of your business, providing sectoral expertise and dedicated infrastructures for the functions and areas of operation and specialties that most affect your organization’s investment objectives:
Research & Development For your R&D initiatives, Tuscany provides a high concentration of universities and research centres (IFAC, INO, ISTI), which facilitates the recruitment of young talents and experts in science and technology, as well as university spinoff projects for technology transfer. • University of Florence with 3 departments dedicated to the sector: mathematics and computer science (https:// www.dimai.unifi.it/), information engineering (https:// www.dinfo.unifi.it/), statistics, computer science, applications (https://www.disia.unifi.it/). • University of Siena with the department of mathematical and computer sciences (https://www.diism.unisi.it/it). • University of Pisa with an extended offer of Masters, Departments, Summer Schools, Special Schools and International Doctorates (https://www.unipi.it/), such as the Sant’Anna School (https://www.santannapisa.it/it) and the school of mathematics and computer science of the Scuola Normale Superiore (www.sns.it). • IMT School of High Studies of Lucca (www.imtlucca.it) with educational activities, laboratories and technology transfer.
Business Services • Among the first level services for companies in the sector, there is the Advanced Manufacturing Technology District of the Tuscany Region, which operates in the transfer of innovation and technological development for small and medium-sized enterprises. There are over 300 Tuscan companies affiliated, whose total turnover is over 3 billion euros, 363 patents, with over 10,000 employees of which more than 2,000 in Research & Development. The pole is distributed among various regional centres such as the Polo Tecnologico di Navacchio www. polotecnologico.it and the Polo Tecnologico Lucchese www.polotecnologicolucchese.it, which offer scouting services, networking, search for investors, identification of calls for tenders and financing, internationalisation, training and commercial support. • Polo Tecnologico di Navacchio www.polotecnologico. it: A network of more than 60 companies where more than 600 people work to innovate and develop and where every day the opportunities for new ideas and collaborations arise. The cluster holds a “Business Incubation” service certified by MISE (Ministry of Economic Development), through which it is able to support the creation and competitive development of innovative start-ups and spin-offs in the hi-tech sectors. • Centre of Competence in Tuscan Cybersecurity (C3T) www.c3t.it: it carries out research and technology transfer activities in the field of information security. • Internet Festival www.internetfestival.it: it is an annual event hosted by the city of Pisa and organized by “Fondazione Toscana”, a foundation created by the Tuscany Region. With 13 different venues and 13 different themes, visitors to the festival are completely absorbed in a series of innovative activities that reflect on the impact of the Internet on modern life, considering digital democracy and the future of information and research.
Logistics With 75% of the Italian market less than 400 km away, and a dense network of iron and rubber infrastructure for fluid logistics of people and products, Tuscany ranks among the main logistical nodes of the country. In addition, the presence of three seaports, including the Livorno platform (one of the best performing and most integrated at European level), facilitates connections with the rest of the world and with the rest of Europe. In particular, it allows a substantial saving of time to and from South East Asia and immediate access the main European corridors.
Manufacturing Being able to count on top-level industrial districts, Tuscany primarily offers an internal market of extreme interest in production and development in the ICT and TLC field in the most diverse sectors. In addition to this, there is a vibrant sector strongly projected towards the international dimension, supported by a highly competitive and efficient training and procurement system. In Tuscany, a unique model of collaboration between industry, universities, research centres and public bodies has fostered the growth of spin-off companies, SMEs and leading companies worldwide creating important skills in Robotics and Automation, Bioinformatics, ICT for management, Media Entertainment, Open Source and Open Data, Aerospace Technology, Telecommunications, Photonics and Optoelectronics, IT for logistics.
Motorways
Rail Infrastructure
Motorways provide good transports links througout Italy:
An execellent, rapid rail link system guaranteeing:
• 2 jey north-south motorway axes (the A1-E35 Milano-Roma and the A12-E80 Genova-Livorno)
• 1 east-west motorway (A11-E76-Viareggio-Pistoia)
• 50 daily links between Florence and Rome (1 hour 31 min)
• 24 daily links between Florence and Milan (1 hour 35 min)
• 17 daily links between Florence and Venice (2 hour 5 min)
Ports
Airports
2 commercial ports in Livorno (7th Italian port, 6th for cointaner traffic serving all the major ports in the world) and Piobino, in close proximity to other major Italian ports.
2 major international airports, Pisa and Florence, for passengers and freight, with numerous daily flights to major italian and Europen cities.
You know, in Tuscany you can! Since excellence grows up in a land where first-class standards suit your needs.
Tuscany, for centuries in the future.
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