The southern Italian region of Puglia
is banking on innovation, Governor Michele Emiliano told the
concluding session of the Innovation Talk conference at the
Italian Pavilion at Expo Dubai 2020.
"I thank (Italy Pavilion Commissioner) Paolo Glisenti who asked
us to take part in Expo 2020 and involved all Italian regions in
a common effort, because it is true that Italy has regional
autonomies but it is a single entity and when it projects itself
outside its borders it presents itself as a single, stupendous
reality", said the centre-left Democratic Patry (PD) official.
Emiliano thanked Italian ambassador to the United Arab Emirates
Nicola Lener "for the assistance which the Puglia Region always
receives in every part of the world where we go", as well as
Glisenti. The Innovation Talk on the theme of 'Creating the
Future: Trends for Tomorrow's Manufacturing' wound up the Puglia
region's mission during Expo Dubai's Space Week.
"Puglia," said Emiliano, "has been banking on innovation for
many years, the only way to close the gap with the most advanced
regions of Italy and Europe. We have used above all relations
with universities and so we will immediately build useful
conditions for collaboration with them. We have a programme of
helping investments in Puglia, permanently open, which enables
the use of European funds and to connect them with private money
without time limits. Every person, every company that has a good
idea can start working with us immediately." In the last 10
years, the governor said, some 670 start-ups have gotten off the
ground in Puglia and produced good results.
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