the place where ideas can grow

_POLO TECNOLOGICO DI PAVIA

Innovative ideas, innovative business

Polo Tecnologico di Pavia is a Technology Park and an incubator of innovative companies. Today our spaces accommodate 40 companies, with a workforce of around 350. Our mission is to create an environment that promotes innovative entrepreneurial ideas in our territory. We offer our companies research labs and modern, well-equipped offices, as well as logistic and administrative assistance. Our job is to promote partnership initiatives, enterprise acceleration programmes in collaboration with the Mind The Bridge Foundation based in San Francisco and international exchanges supported by various partners, including the University of Pavia, the Ministry of Economic Development and the APSTI (Association of Italian Technology Parks).

50 accelerated startups with Mind the Bridge

10 enterprises created after acceleration

50thousand Euros in scholarships

5thousand square metres of spaces for enterprises and coworking

40companies

350 people employed

Polo Tecnologico was founded in 2012 in the heart of the city of Pavia, in an abandoned industrial area that housed the Magneti Marelli plants, as a private project for urban recovery and redevelopment.

Ict 67%

Services 18%

Life science 15%

_PRODUCTION AREAS

_PAVIA

Small city for huge ideas

Pavia is a city steeped in art and history, located on the banks of the river Ticino. It is 30 km from Milan, financial capital of Italy, capital of Lombardy, one of the most developed regions in Europe. Pavia is the seat of one of the most important Italian universities and of a network of clinics and research institutes of excellence. It is a city with a high quality of life.

895 new youth enterprises (under 35s)

1 million square metres of disused industrial areas

University of Pavia

Cutting edge treatment and research institutes

International research centres

_PAVIA

Industrial areas

Today the city is planning its future: throughout its territory there are around 1 million square metres of abandoned industrial areas, earmarked for new production facilities.

Pavia

Milano Linate Airport

Milano Malpensa Airport Bergamo Orio Al Serio Airport

1h 15’1h 10’

45’

Milan

Turin

Rome

35’

1h 50’

20’

2h 05’

3h 50’

IRCCS Policlinico

San Matteo

CNAONational Centre for Oncological Hadrontherapy

EUCENTRE European Centre for

Training and Research in Earthquake Engineering

Fondazione Maugeri

Istituto di Cura Città di Pavia

Università degli Studi di Pavia

IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Nazionale Mondino

_UNIVERSITY AND RESEARCH

A unique system for students

The University of Pavia is one of the oldest and most prestigious in Europe, excelling both in the humanities and in science, particularly in medicine and biotechnologies. It participates in international projects and has partnerships with universities, research centres and enterprises throughout the world.

Students can further their studies by attending the Institute for Advanced Study IUSS Scuola Universitaria Superiore, and offered support in their curriculum by a system of 16 university colleges, which provide learning and cultural activities.

Università24.000 students registered

86 study courses

7 study courses held in English

1.500 scholarships

400 exchange programs with 62 countries

21 PhD courses

52 postgraduate schools

IUSS Institute For Advanced Study Iuss 240 students, 15 professors100 visiting professors70 master students, 70 PhD students70 partner companies

University Colleges4 historical colleges of merit 11 Edisu colleges (Agency for the Right to University Education)4 private colleges

_INSPIRATION

A culturale heritage of creativity and innovation

DA VINCI’S ANATOMYLeonardo Da Vinci and the anatomist Marco Antonio della Torre collaborated in Pavia between 1510 and 1511. Their meetings in the anatomical theatre gave rise to many famous drawings by the Master, detailing the “amazing human body machine”, which at that time was still largely unknown.

VOLTA’S PILEAlessandro Volta carried out his studies on electricity in Pavia, leading to the invention of the Voltaic Pile in 1799, the first generator capable of producing constant energy. The volt, the unit of measurement of the electrical potential difference, was named in his honour.

NOBEL FOR MEDICINEIn 1873 Camillo Golgi invented the optic microscopy technique to allow nervous tissue cells to be viewed by staining the neurons black. Ever since then, neurology has been able to progress.In 1906 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for his studies of the nervous system.

THE SPHYGMOMANOMETERIn 1896 the physician Scipione Riva Rocci invented the sphygmomanometer as we know it today. The blood pressure measurement instrument, developed by him in Pavia, soon became the most common and widely used basic medical device. Harvey Cushing, the famous American neurosurgeon, saw this instrument in Pavia in 1901 and introduced it to the United States shortly after, contributing to a decrease in deaths during surgery caused by anaesthesia.

EINSTEIN’S FIRMThe brothers Hermann (Albert’s father) and Jakob Einstein moved to Pavia, the home of the battery. In 1894 they formed a company that was innovative for those times, selling dynamos, arc lamps, ammeters, switches and alternating and direct current. They produced and managed electrical lighting systems, offering a complete service. It was in those years that Albert wrote his first scientific paper: the Pavia Paper.

_OUR SERVICES

Business Incubation

Property Development & Facilities management

International Networking

Projects development

Business matching

Acceleration Program

Education programs

_OUR COMPANIES

Ground floor

_OUR COMPANIES

First floor

_OUR COMPANIES

Second floor

_OUR COMPANIES

Coworking area

_OUR PARTNER

Università di Pavia

United Ventures

Comune di Pavia

Italian Angels for Growth

Associazione Parchi Scientifici Tecnologici

Italiani

UniCredit Start Lab

Mind the Bridge

MIBE

Relations with investors and investments funds

Support for production facilities in the territory of Pavia

International exchanges

University and research of excellence

Enterprise acceleration for startups and young entrepreneurs

Partnerships with national public bodies: Ministry of Economic Development, Chambers

of Commerce, Region, Municipal Council of Pavia, etc.

Excellences in the field of medicine and engineering

_OUR PLUS

Via Fratelli Cuzio, 42 27100 Pavia (PV) – Italy

Tel: (+39) 0382 1726248 E-mail: info@polotecnologicopavia.it

www.polotecnologicopavia.it

@PoloPavia

polotecnologicopavia

photo credits: Marco Rognoni, Marcella Milani, students at page 8 appear on courtesy of the S. Caterina University College in Pavia

graphic design: www.echo.pv.it

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Info: the Mind the Bridge Foundation

School: Mind the Bridge Start up School