Padua, first edition of the European Innovation and Technology Transfer Exhibition

Three days of conferences, debates, comparisons and presentations, which will alternate with the Microinnovation Marathon, where companies will talk about their innovation: thennovation made with completely unusual formulas, sometimes spontaneous, outside the logic of the large global industrial groups which have often instead drawn on that enormous network of widespread creativity that the Northeast has produced, and far from the large research systems. 

today North East however, it seems to have finished its cycle and globalization requires us to rethink and reorganize a system that must address the problem of building a new relationship between small and medium enterprises and the world of research, of building network systems and relationships that favor a new phase in what is the key factor and daily bread of any enterprise: innovation.

For this reason, within the candidacy project of the Northeast as European Capital of Culture in 2019, in close synergy with the vocation of Trieste and Trento to play the role of scientific research hub in this area, Padova chooses to play the role of innovation hub, applying through the Galileo Innovators' Festival, to catalyze all the realities of the Northeast and at European level, linked to innovation processes.

Galileo Innovactors' Festival aims to reverse this situation by building an open-air laboratory of good practices, through:

• the meeting between researchers and the business world, on concrete projects that can be developed in the short term;
• the reformulation of the concepts of industry and craftsmanship through the rediscovery of the country's key competitive factor which consists of artisan manufacturing, which however must evolve on an industrial and technologically advanced basis;
• the enhancement of the specific skills acquired by the University and by the centers in charge of Innovation with the very rich fabric of experience gained in these areas by the entire university system of the Northeast and neighboring countries;
• storytelling meetings, carried out in a dialogic way: two researchers, one at the beginning of his career, and one who has already achieved his own professional maturity, talk about their method of innovating and the dynamics of their work and relationship
• contradictory: there is not necessarily a “linear” path to innovation; "voices outside the chorus", controversial that nevertheless managed to achieve excellent results
• In all of this, there will be a space dedicated to creativity understood as show and entertainment, whose common thread will remain hand-in-hand with the theme of innovation.

The sections:
Innovation to the Future : Over 20 events with key players on the world scene, to tell the story of innovation at 360 degrees. Conferences, meetings, presentations and dialogues in a large "laboratory" in the city, Padua, which has the "numbers" of an international capital of innovation and technology transfer. A vocation to be enhanced in the candidacy of Venice Northeast European Capital of Culture 2019.