Italian Industrial Districts

Posted at 27 July 2005 in Innovation Clusters

92 industrial districts appear on the portal of the Italian Industrial Districts Club. They are found in many traditional industry sectors: food, paper, plastics, rubber, mechanics, jewellery, leather, shoes, furniture, textiles, and clothing. The profile of each district outlines among others its specialisation, number of companies and employees, and sales turnover.

Business Intelligence

Posted at 27 July 2005 in Strategic Intelligence - Foresight

Business Intelligence (BI) offers a series of tools and techniques for data analysis, trends description, and evaluation. BI complement more traditional intelligence techniques, such as foresight, benchmarking, and assessment. BI technologies attempt to help companies

Future Technologies

Posted at 26 July 2005 in Strategic Intelligence - Foresight

Nanotechnology, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics: A technical, political and institutional map of emerging technologies

‘Future Technologies’ presents how Greenpeace is thinking about emerging technologies.

Oslo Manual

Posted at 26 July 2005 in Innovation Measurement

The Oslo Manual is an initiative of OECD, the European Commission and Eurostat focusing on the measurement of innovation. It has two objectives: to provide a framework within which existing surveys in OECD countries can evolve towards comparability; and to assist newcomers to this important field.

Innovation and Learning in Dynamic City-Regions

Posted at 26 July 2005 in Innovative Cities & Regions

The Second International Conference on the Process of Innovation and Learning in Dynamic City-Regions was held in Bangalore, India, 13-15 July 2005. Bangalore is the capital of Karnataka, a booming city, centre of the IT industry and usually referred as the ‘Silicon Valley’ of India.

MetaForesight Project

Posted at 20 July 2005 in Strategic Intelligence - Foresight

MetaForesight seeks to promote intelligence of EU regions through the exploitation of knowledge achieved with the application of foresight, benchmarking, r&d, market watch, technology skills, in the diverse information systems developed throughout the EU regions.

Digital Corfu

Posted at 18 July 2005 in Dissemination - Promotion

The aim of the project is the digital representation of the Old Town of Corfu, including a series of information: the city, the monuments, the cultural events and activities, and also commercial and tourist information (hotels, restaurants, museums).

A web site supports virtual itineraries in the historical centre, combining interactive maps and panoramic images. The creation of Digital Corfu is based on an extented survey of the Old City.