All faces of innovation at Fiera Milano Rho: the Sant'Anna School, four of its spin-off companies, and the Artes 4.0 Competence Centre take part in Bi-MU, Italy's leading event on topics such as robotics, automation, and enabling technologies
The Sant'Anna School, its spin-off companies Co-Robotics, Fluid Wire Robotics, Mediate, VRMedia and the Artes 4.0 Competence Centre will take part from Wednesday 9 to Saturday 12 October in the 34th edition of BI-MU: all faces of innovation, scheduled at Fiera Milano Rho. BI-MU is Italy's leading biennial event dedicated to machine tool cutting and forming, robotics, automation, digital and additive manufacturing, auxiliary and enabling technologies.
The 2024 edition of BI-MU is the chance to promote the technologies developed by the spin-off companies of the Sant'Anna School and by the members of the Centre of Competence in the fields of robotics, AI, systems and solutions for virtual and augmented reality and, in general, high technology for Industry 4.0 and 5.0, but also to valorise the results of the research carried out in the laboratories of the Sant'Anna School and to make known the innovation services of the Artes 4.0 Centre of Competence addressed to companies.
Among the events aimed at fostering the meeting and comparison between the world of industry and the world of applied research, the Sant'Anna School, its Research Enhancement Unit, the spin-off companies participating in Bi-Mu and the Artes 4.0 Competence Centre are proposing, on Friday 11 October from 1.40 p.m. to 2 p.m., the round table entitled ‘Services and funding for Technology Transfer: from Basic Research to the Market. The tools of the Sant'Anna School and the Artes 4.0 Competence Centre'.
The central theme of the round table is the discussion of ways in which institutions and companies can work together to grow innovative technologies and successfully introduce them to the market. A pathway, the one created in the Artes 4.0 model, ‘Science Driven Innovation’, i.e. innovation driven by science, knowledge produced by universities, which starts with technology validation, passes through the prototyping and small-scale production phases, and arrives at market entry thanks to technological support and resource backing. The meeting provides an overview of all the tools that promote the creation of new technologies and their market launch .
The round table also presents the opportunities, challenges and best practices, represented by the spin-off companies of the Sant'Anna School taking part in the event, for exploiting innovation in economic terms. These are success stories that demonstrate how the synergy between universities and companies can accelerateinnovation, reduce the risks involved in investing in research and development, and generate concrete benefits for the public and private sectors.
