Kilometro Rosso

Descrizione

Kilometro Rosso Science Park, which is located in Bergamo, is a managed environment that plays host to a wealth of companies, research centres, laboratories, high-tech manufacturing facilities and providers of innovation services. The Park’s Mission is to promote the development of a hub of knowledge, innovation and high technology by creating a rendezvous point for innovation-driven companies and for scientific and R&D centres focusing on advanced technologies. Kilometro Rosso is a “node of an international network of relationships and connections”, that boosts the share of skills, knowledge, information and know-how not only among its Partners, but also between them and the outside world. In order to favour open innovation and contamination among ideas, resources and skills of different groups, the Park attracts businesses that operate in a wide spectrum of fields: Automotive, Biomedical, Mechatronics, Advanced Materials, ICT, Energy, Mechano-textile and many more. Today Kilometro Rosso can count on the presence of about 1.600 R&D specialists and 50 established companies. Kilometro Rosso is fast becoming one of the most successful science Park of its type and one of the most important in Italy. Moreover Kilometro Rosso is very active in widening its national and international relationship network. The Park has become a member of (amongst other associations) IASP (the International Association of Science Parks), APSTI (the Association of Italian Science & Technology Parks) and AIRI (the Italian Association of Industrial Researchers). Kilometro Rosso has also signed two important R&D partnership agreements with primary Italian scientific institutions as “Elettra” (the multidisciplinary Synchrotron Light Laboratory in AREA Science Park in Trieste) and the “IIT – Italian Institute of Technology” of Genova, to promote industrial research, innovation and development of frontier technologies in enterprises.