Kilometro Rosso SpA

Kilometro Rosso is one of the leading Italian innovation districts, a place where research and business meet, and which acts as a technology transfer agent. Today, the campus hosts 80+ Resident Partners – companies, laboratories, and research centers – with its 3,000 employees and researchers.

Kilometro Rosso acts as a technology transfer agent choosing an inclusive approach, comprehensive of businesses, universities, geographical territory, and institutions, which work together to enhance their value as individual entities, increasing their competitiveness. The district believes in the Open Innovation paradigm, which focuses on activating synergies among individuals with different competencies. This results in the reduction of the time needed to develop innovative solutions to be introduced to the market. To pursuing its mission, Kilometro Rosso offers a variety of services, both directly and through the Resident Partners community: it counts today more than 60 funded R&D projects for over 189 million Euros.   

Kilometro Rosso’s Innovation Service Team is specialised in call scouting, proposal writing and project implementation with a focus on project management, dissemination activities and finance reporting. The team also oversees the activation of collaborations and relations among the research’s ecosystem and enterprises and facilitates the access to financing measures at regional, national, and European level.