JOL in 2015
8 JOL
5 Italian universities of excellence
10 foreign universities in partnership
1.6 million euros of measured social value
Now more than ever the attitude to “Open Innovation” and contamination with other industries can revolutionise the life of companies and the Public Administration with tangible effects on the everyday life of citizens. Thanks to new mobile technologies and social networks the push for bottom-up changes has greatly increased.
Arising from intuition on open innovation, the JOLs are laboratories of research and innovation created by Telecom Italia within universities, the result of collaborations and agreements in specific fields of scientific or technological interest. Active since 2012, they are an important vehicle for spreading ideas between the academic and business worlds.
Scenario
The role of innovation is ever more crucial for the growth, performance and sustainable renewal of companies, in terms of the transfer of advanced technologies to the market, systematic product and service improvement, radical changes to business and the rules of the game. The distinctive factors of competitiveness, particularly in periods of financial and industrial crisis, are increasingly tied to how able a company is to innovate and invest in innovation. In this new context, the JOLs play a key role. With the “company on campus” model, they encourage a natural osmosis between the academic and industrial worlds, in which the co-design and co-development of innovative solutions are not just the result of a process but its fundamental reason for existing.
8 JOL
5 Italian universities of excellence
10 foreign universities in partnership
1.6 million euros of measured social value
27 patents filed
30 collaborations with international universities and research centres
7 million euros of funding from European projects for TIM and the universities