Finally, the collaboration between traditional companies and ICT Email List companies as a lever to introduce innovation. Stimulating innovation is also necessary in a region like Emilia Romagna. According to the report presented by the center for innovation and economic development, the Region presents a situation made up of a lot Email List of incremental innovation and little radical innovation. “In addition - adds the director of the center Luca Valli - at the moment companies are investing even less in innovation and we will Email List see the effects in the coming years”.
In the 2009-2011 period, the purchase of new Email List machinery and equipment decreased by 14.4%, software by 8.9% and hardware by 11.2%. And almost six out of ten companies declare that they have not introduced innovations in the last Email List three years. This is in a region where R&D expenditure affects GDP more than the national average. “We have noticed - he continues - that there is a lack of understanding of what is possible to do with broadband. But the cultural gap concerns ICT in general, not just ADSL ".
That with an adequate connection, surfing the Email List Internet would benefit above all, 20.6% e-mail and only 5.8% e-commerce and 5.3% business support productive. “Businesses - observes Valli - are bombarded with information, but the internal structure is unable to translate them into knowledge”. A new building project provides for the Email List progressive development of a series of services for the community: it will be possible to remotely monitor the vital parameters of citizens with health problems or make metropolitan areas safer through a direct connection with the police.