Knowledge interchange

The Knowledge Interchange constitutes the model theoretical and applicative of reference most evolved of the University's action towards the local community and extra local communities, in the view of development of fundamental research and collaborative research.

The Knowledge Interchange moves of consideration that the current models of interaction between Universities and Companies, at the base of collaborative research (Technology Transfer and Knowledge Transfer), are refer to contexts that have undergone significant upheavals from the emersion of new social challenges, economic and cultural, over that from emersion of new innovation players in the territories.

The end, is put university in a more proactive position, towards of local stakeholder (citizens, enterprise, public administrations, investors, etc..) national and international in promotion of the development and competitiveness.

The Triple Helix ' model of the 1990s has identified three main drivers of the innovation (Universities, PAs and Enterprises) while today, in the phase in which Public Administration and Companies are taken with the crisis and struggling to invest in innovation and research, new players in innovation emerge.

Some examples of the emersion of new drivers of the innovation, to which the University must refer itself in a dynamic and constant process of interchange, are the associations that activate resources spread in the social contexts; citizens who organize themselves to design and offer new services in shared, but also investors, the philanthropic foundations and those of banking origins, the impact finance and makers who adopt new productive models.

The University is then called to contribute to the interpretation of phenomena and to the identification of the solutions, by promoting approaches of interdisciplinary type, as well as multidisciplinary, also overcoming some traditional orientations of their own actions that derive from customary, but also from objective regulatory and procedural constraints.