The economic system can grow through the strategic use of innovation. Investing in scientific research, encouraging the setting-up of technology-based businesses, developing economies of scope and scale with international private enterprise and public bodies, are all examples of strategies that can generate virtuous circles of economic growth.

These mechanisms are very familiar to the Fondazione Politecnico di Milano, which is committed to the planning, management and development of projects to introduce technological innovation to the Italian market and increase Italy's competitiveness in the wider European context.


There are three cardinal points in this approach:

• support for the creation of new, high-technology enterprise
• implementation of cooperative projects at European level
• construction of the Science and Technology Park at the Bovisa campus in Milan