The regional innovation system of Piedmont

During the last century, Piedmont, or better still, the Province of Turin, was undoubtedly one of the areas throughout the Italian territory marked by the most intense technological/scientific research activity linked in particular to industrial process and
product innovation.

Piedmont maintains a position of excellence at national level (more moderate at European level), despite the progressive erosion of its supremacy and a drop in investments (private, by enterprises, which are the most important ones); increasing difficulty in drawing value into the region from the results of their research activity can also be perceived. These difficulties probably also depend upon the lack of significant relations between the different public and private protagonists of the research itself, which prevents the region from acting as a “system”.