Designing for local SMEs. The role of universities in society and for enterprise.

Since twenty years, the university is engaged in actions of design-driven for the innovation of enterprise, through a process of knowledge transfer widened to the emerging objectives of the society. In short, working for: the improvement of the ecological footprint, the changing of production modes with systemic vision, the digital technologies at the service of the interaction and of the network sharing (open source) between people, the social project and the territory, as an expression of cultural identity and belonging. These are also the themes of the research / action INTERREG ALCOTRA EcoDesign Network