The Italian Innovation Centre in San Francisco at INNOVIT is inaugurating Call4INNOVIT, an acceleration program designed for innovative startups and SMEs. Applications are open now. The first Call4INNOVIT specializes in Artificial Intelligence, Metaverse technologies, and Cultural and Creative Industries. The goal is to help boost the success of It...

Promoting and supporting in the cradle of world innovation the ecosystem of an innovative and competitive country in all economic sectors: this is the goal of the Italian Pavilion of ITA, Italian Trade Agency, at CES 2023 in Las Vegas, the most important tech event in the world, scheduled for January 5-8, 2023. The Italian participation aims to get...

The year 2022 closes on a positive note for the Italian startup ecosystem with a share of equity investments by Italian hi-tech startups of 2.1 billion. This is three times more than the investments reached in 2019, which instead amounted to only 649 million. "An important boost that promises to last over time," comments Andrea Rangone, scientific...

The organization of Italians Alberto Onetti and Marco Marinucci expands in America and conquers New York as well. The new office of the Italian boutique offering consulting and innovation services with an international scope opened its third office in America on August bank holiday. After San Francisco, its headquarters, and Los Angeles, Mind The B...

Hand in hand with development and innovation are growing investments in Italian startups. The latest data speak of a growing involvement of venture capital, during the first half of the year the amount invested in startups increased, reaching a total of 957 million euros, more than doubling in a single year (123%). This increase was mainly due to I...

The number of startups and SMEs hiring new resources in Italy is growing. In 2021, 78.5 % of Italian innovative companies expanded their teams with new hires, up 8.5 % from 2020. This is according to research on the impact of startups on the labor market in Italy conducted by the Italian Tech Alliance (formerly VC Hub Italia) in collaboration with...

RetImpresa, the agency of Confindustria (The General Confederation of Italian Industries) for the representation and promotion of Business Networks and aggregations, strengthens its collaboration with Miami Scientific Italian Community (MSIC) by focusing on Registry International, the Italian platform for open innovation that uses blockchain as an...

To encourage, support and develop entrepreneurial relationships between Italy and its best innovative realities with the Boston ecosystem. This is the goal at the base of the agreement signed between Entopan Innovation, an incubator/accelerator and open innovation hub based in Catanzaro, and 42N Advisors, B-Corp that aims to support Italian compani...

In the spring of 2013, my great friend Andrea Mancia, then Deputy Editor of the Italian newspaper "L'Opinione", asked me to collaborate by reporting on the world of relations between Italy and the United States. That was how the interviews began, which today are almost 300: We the Italians had not yet been born. Then, as now, the desire was to cove...

If Made in Italy is a fundamental aspect of the Italian presence in America, not only from a commercial point of view but also from a diplomatic and cultural one, it is ICE (the Italian Trade Agency) that is mainly responsible for following the system of promotion and distribution of Italian products in the United States. ICE is present in America...