The National Smart Specialisation Strategy (NSSS)
The National Smart Specialisation Strategy (NSSS) identifies long-term investment priorities shared with the Regions and main stakeholders, ensuring complementarity between the actions planned at central and territorial level, respectively, so as to reduce the duplication and/or overlap risks and strengthen their impacts. The objective is to create new value chains that, starting from R&D, will reach the generation of innovative products and services and development of key enabling technologies for creation of subsequent generations of products aiming to increase wealth, improve its distribution and bet on the possibility of creating new jobs that can last over time.
| Thematic Areas | Development trajectories |
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Smart and sustainable industry, energy and environment
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Innovative, highly efficient production processes for industrial sustainability |
| Evolutionary and adaptive production systems for customised production | |
| Innovative and environmentally friendly materials | |
| Technologies for biomaterials, biobased products and biorefineries | |
| Systems and technologies for reclaiming contaminated sites and decommissioning nuclear plants | |
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| Technologies for smart grids, renewable sources and distributed generation | |
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Health, nutrition, quality of life
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Active & healthy ageing: technologies for active ageing and home care |
| E-health, advanced diagnostics, medical devices and minimal invasiveness | |
| Regenerative, predictive and personalised medicine | |
| Biotechnology, bioinformatics and pharmaceutical development | |
| Development of precision agriculture and agriculture of the future | |
| Systems and technologies for packaging, preservation and traceability and safety of food production | |
| Nutraceuticals, Nutrigenomics, and Functional Foods | |
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Digital Agenda, Smart Communities, Smart Mobility Systems
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Smart Urban Mobility, Systems for logistics and people |
| Systems for urban environment safety, environmental monitoring and prevention of critical events or risks | |
| “Embedded” electronic systems, smart sensor networks, internet of things | |
| Technologies for smart building, energy efficiency, and environmental sustainability | |
| Technologies for dissemination of ultra-broadband connection and web economy | |
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Tourism, Cultural Heritage and Creative Industry
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Industry systems and applications for tourism, access to culture, and attractiveness of Made in Italy products |
| Technologies and applications for conservation, management and enhancement of cultural, artistic and landscape heritage | |
| Technologies for advanced design and digital craftsmanship | |
| Technologies for audio-video productions, gaming and digital publishing | |
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Aerospace and Defense |
Reducing environmental impact (green engine) |
| Advanced avionics in the field of hw module networks and man-machine interface | |
| Advanced air traffic management system | |
| UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) for civil use and ULM (Ultra-Léger Motorisé) | |
| Space robotics, for in-orbit service operations and exploration missions | |
| Earth observation systems in the field of missions, instruments and data processing | |
| Launchers and electric propulsion for more efficient space access and re-entry vehicles | |
| Systems and technologies for military shipbuilding |
The Strategy is implemented through direct initiatives of the NOP “Ricerca & Innovazione” (R&I) and the NOP “Imprese & Competitività” (I&C) and through strategic plans where public Cohesion Policy resources, ordinary national/regional resources and private resources can converge.