PROMETE

Promete Srl is a spin-off company of the National Institute for the Physics of Matter (INFM-CNR) that operates in the field of innovation and technology transfer, with the aim at strengthening the link between research and industries, through the structuring of know-how transfer activities. As a micro company, Promete focuses its business strategy in R&D and in the possibility of bringing to market new ideas from research in order to approach new business opportunities in selected niche markets. Therefore, the company considers as the main growth drivers the investment in intellectual property, in the expertise in engineering frontier applications and in the creation of high value-added innovative products/services, either through joint venture and/or partnerships, often in R&D consortia in international and national R&D projects. The company aims at promoting and implementing, in partnership with other companies and/or research centers, R&D projects that have as their ultimate goal to promote the growth of competitiveness of SMEs in particular through the matching between industrial partners’ innovation needs and the supply of technological knowledge by the research system. The overriding aim is to act as a technological interface between the local industrial sector and the target market, presiding the whole process from the innovation needs’ detection to the implementation of new technological solutions.