The project

The fourth year of the Think Up Project has started in January 2011; about 70 excellent ICT companies from Piemonte will be selected to connect advanced technologies with the requests of small-medium enterprises, corporations, public administrations, universities from all over the world.

The selection will be made on the basis of strict evaluation parameters: technology, innovation and project development skills, as well as the presence of a structured staff for the management of business relations with foreign partners.

These enterprises cover many segments of production and show a wide range of offer:

• Energy & Environment: monitoring & optimization solutions, smart metering, smart grid

• E-health: hospital management system, emergency management system, fragile people monitoring, telemonitoring, physical rehabilitation, neurological recovery, pharmacies solutions

• Finance: trading on line, mobile banking, mobile payments, compliance, banking systems, insurance systems, business intelligence, data quality, security

• ITS – Intelligent Transport System: traffic & congestion management, entertainment services, road maintenance, road/park/public electronic payments, fleet management, infrastructure

• Multimedia/Cinema and Games: audio/video digital preservation, 3D TV & connected TV, advanced digital signage, augmented virtual reality, multi-touch devices, natural language comprehension, user experiences, animation and computer graphics, educational and e-learning

• Process & Management: BPM, BPO, SaaS, ERP, CRM, HRM

• Security: video recorded surveillance, fire detection, intrusion detection, access control, biometrics solutions, intelligent building management system, advanced logical solutions, proactive and process solutions, accident prevention

• Tourism: booking on line, mobile solutions, semantic engine portals, virtual tour & 3D animation, interactive experiences

• Transport and Logistics: supply chain management, datawarehouse, workflow management, tracking
  

Think Up main activities, carried out to support and promote the internationalization of Think Up companies, are:

• Participation in important international events, fairs and business meetings based on the match between offer and demand

• Invitations to international purchase managers to illustrate their development and supply policies and to meet Piedmontese companies, research centers and universities to evaluate business opportunities

• Organization of courses and seminars dedicated to international business themes

• Organization and coordination of strategic business missions to foreign countries to meet international bodies and to explore business opportunities

• Realization of focused researches for partners in targeted countries (Chzech Republic, France, Germany and United Arab Emirates for the first year; Chzech Republic, Germany, Poland, Turkey and United Arab Emirates for the second year).

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