Innovation guide

Innovation is the ability of a society to seize on the changes that act inside her, identifying her own creative factors and strong points. So, first of all, to innovate means to understand the grassroots,the identity, the historical bonds of traditions; then, the research, the imagination and the business venture allow to find successfully solutions at the economic and competitive level.

The difficult task of institutions is to help their own creative class to detect objectives, ways and ideas inside a strategy turned towards a common interest. In the global age, the initiatives to improve the quality of life, the culture and the welfare of citizens need increasingly the technological research and the communications medium. If, as Albert Einstein said, the imagination is the intelligence having fun, the development process of a regional area is closely related to its evolution toward the future, the participation of the individuals to the decisional and productive process, the emphasis on creative and brilliant capacities.

For example, the cultural heritage, view both as a patrimony of historical and artistic goods and as a live and active intelligence of a nation, is fundamental to increase the development opportunities of a region, creating cultural networks and district realities that can bear on the existing economic dynamics in a concrete way. In the same ways, the initiatives of eco-sustainable building constitute an innovative form of architecture that combine the living and comfort demands with the energy conservation and the use of materials that respect the environment, offering new creative solutions for the creation of new models of liveableness.