Science, Technology and Innovation Week to enhance Sino-Italian ties
MILAN, Italy -- New partnerships among innovative and hi-tech companies, research centers and scientific institutions from Italy and China will be forged at the Science, Technology and Innovation Week which will kick off in Italy on Monday.
The five-day event will include B2B meetings between Italian and Chinese institutions and companies, as well as seminars, workshops and exhibitions organized in the creative city of Naples, in southern Italy.
Business capital Milan was chosen for the first time to host a key meeting of the week, the China Italy Innovation Forum, Giuliano Noci, vice rector for China and marketing professor at Polytechnic University of Milan, co-organizer of the forum, told Xinhua.
At the forum, this year at its fifth edition. "We would like to mark a change of pace in the relations between Italy and China," Noci said.
The professor noted that since 40 years ago Germany has seen research and university as flywheels for industrial development.
"Italy now wants to emulate this type of approach," he stressed, adding that "research and industry have to be closely tied together, which becomes even more important when dialoguing with China."
Expectations for both the forum and the ASEM summit are very high, he said, because "Italians have become aware of the possibility to seize valuable business opportunities with their Chinese industrial interlocutors."
Noci told Xinhua that the forum will count "an extraordinary number of attentively selected participants."
There will be representatives of around 200 high-tech Chinese companies as well as top managers and top officials of various Italian companies, he added.
"Through this forum we aim at making our Italian audience better realize what China represents today, namely a key driver of bilateral cooperation," Noci said.
First launched in 2010, the Science, Technology and Innovation Week is now structured with annual matchmaking events, which take place alternately in Italy and China under the aegis of their respective governments, in a long-term bilateral cooperation program.
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