Milan invests in Fashion&ICT with a national prize

on venerdì 12 dicembre 2008

"Milan hosts the National Prize for Innovation 2008 with a concrete commitment. In fact, the Town Council invests in 3 great infrastructure of research, incubator and projects." that was what the major Letizia Moratti said at the presentation of the final at the department of Design, Arts, Communication and Fashion of Politecnico University of Milan. Particularly, the initiative sustains the best entrepreneurial ideas and research with an high-tech content. Basically, the contest will be developed in Business Cases organized by 42 italian universities to decide which projects are the most interesting.
Subsequently, the major explained the efforts made to improve fashion sector and studies. Firstly, it has been created a consortium among Bocconi, Politecnico, Iulm and Cattolica universities and National Fashion Chamber. For what concerns the City of Taste, the study has been realised by State University and the Tecnological Padan Park. Secondly, it has been constituited a network of incubator of young high-tech enterprises. Thirdly, it comes the projects. One of them is the wi-fi connection in Milan from the downtown to San Siro zone in order to give a range of services to inhabitants like the ones bout security, parking places.