Why Piemonte?
• Bordering with France and Switzerland and located at the crossroads of the two main European development axes, Piemonte - part of the Alps-Mediterranean Euroregion - offers to companies located on its territory the access to the world’s richest consumer market of 497 million people, of which over 330 adopt a single currency.
Alps-Mediterranean Euroregion:
- 17 million inhabitants
- over € 490 billion GDP
- exports equal to € 110 billion
Piemonte region:
- 4,400,000 Inhabitants
- 124 billion Euros GDP, 28,300 Euros per capita GDP
- regional exports equal to € 37 billion
• The region, with its 468,000 enterprises, is characterized by a dynamic economy, reliable in industry and services and with a strong orientation to internationalization:
- over 650 foreign companies, with more than 100,000 employees
- third Italian region for incoming foreign investments
• The regional territory has a strong industrial tradition, combined with a high capacity for innovation, and it is leading in R&D:
- first Italian region for private investments in R&D
- first Italian region for expenditure on innovation in the manufacturing sector
- over 200 public and private research centres, 380 laboratories, 4 Universities, 6 science and technology parks
- 12 innovation hubs created by Piemonte Region
• The strong capacity of cohesion between the public and private sectors rises also from the close cooperation among institutions, universities and companies, and it is confirmed by the successful organization of international important events such as the 2006 Winter Olympics, Torino World Design Capital in 2008, ESOF 2010 etc. Furthermore, because of the close relationship between the Universities and the local economic system, Piemonte provides professional profiles of the highest level:
- over 18,000 employed R&S (11% of the total national)
- 100,000 students enrolled in Piemonte’s Universities
• In the last decades Piemonte, traditionally the heart of the Italian Automotive Industry, has diversified its own economic structure investing in strategic sectors:
- aerospace
- automotive
- design
- energy and environmental technologies
- ICT
- Intelligent Transportation System and sustainable mobility
- life sciences, pharmaceutics and healthcare
- logistics
- nanotechnology
- robotics
(Sources: Piemonte in cifre 2009; ISTAT)
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Why Piemonte?
• Bordering with France and Switzerland and located at the crossroads of the two main European development axes, Piemonte - part of the Alps-Mediterranean Euroregion - offers to companies located on its territory the access to the world’s richest consumer market of 497 million people, of which over 330 adopt a single currency.
Alps-Mediterranean Euroregion:
- 17 million inhabitants
- over € 490 billion GDP
- exports equal to € 110 billion
Piemonte region:
- 4,400,000 Inhabitants
- 124 billion Euros GDP, 28,300 Euros per capita GDP
- regional exports equal to € 37 billion
• The region, with its 468,000 enterprises, is characterized by a dynamic economy, reliable in industry and services and with a strong orientation to internationalization:
- over 650 foreign companies, with more than 100,000 employees
- third Italian region for incoming foreign investments
• The regional territory has a strong industrial tradition, combined with a high capacity for innovation, and it is leading in R&D:
- first Italian region for private investments in R&D
- first Italian region for expenditure on innovation in the manufacturing sector
- over 200 public and private research centres, 380 laboratories, 4 Universities, 6 science and technology parks
- 12 innovation hubs created by Piemonte Region
• The strong capacity of cohesion between the public and private sectors rises also from the close cooperation among institutions, universities and companies, and it is confirmed by the successful organization of international important events such as the 2006 Winter Olympics, Torino World Design Capital in 2008, ESOF 2010 etc. Furthermore, because of the close relationship between the Universities and the local economic system, Piemonte provides professional profiles of the highest level:
- over 18,000 employed R&S (11% of the total national)
- 100,000 students enrolled in Piemonte’s Universities
• In the last decades Piemonte, traditionally the heart of the Italian Automotive Industry, has diversified its own economic structure investing in strategic sectors:
- aerospace
- automotive
- design
- energy and environmental technologies
- ICT
- Intelligent Transportation System and sustainable mobility
- life sciences, pharmaceutics and healthcare
- logistics
- nanotechnology
- robotics
(Sources: Piemonte in cifre 2009; ISTAT)
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