Press Release
NAPLES. About 300 speakers, 120 companies , 33 exhibitors and 26 institutional bodies will be the protagonists of Innovation Village 2025, scheduled for Thursday, May 29 and Friday, May 30 in Naples, in the setting of Villa Doria d’Angri, home of the University of Naples Parthenope.
The event organized by Knowledge for Business blows out its ten candles and confirms itself as a national reference point for dialogue between the productive world and the research system; a platform that networks companies, startups, research organizations and institutions to discuss technologies, sustainability and development.
Artificial intelligence , bio-economy , bio-based materials , space economy , quantum innovation , advanced manufacturing , strategies for startups and technology transfer are some of the strands at the center of the 2025 edition, which will start at 9:30 a.m. and last for the entire day between talks, working tables and exhibition area.
“Innovation Village was created to facilitate the meeting between different worlds: public and private, research and business, young people and large industrial players,” explains Annamaria Capodanno , director of the event. “Today, ten years after the first edition, we celebrate a community that continues to grow, focusing on the concrete impact of innovation and a sustainable vision of the future.”
Highlights include the presentation of the Innovation Village Award , an award organized with ASviS and ENEA and sponsored by Optima Italia, dedicated to projects capable of generating positive environmental, social or productive impacts.
The first prototypes made with ScobySkin , an innovative material obtained by fermenting tea, sugars (also from fruit waste) and “good” batteries, the same ones used to produce vinegar, will also be presented. The result is a tough cellulose, workable like leather, but completely biodegradable and free of harmful chemicals . An innovation that combines bioeconomy, design and sustainability.
Great attention is also paid to the role of the younger generation. Kicking off the first edition of the ‘Hackathon for Biodiversity , sponsored by the National Biodiversity Future Center and implemented by Knowledge for Business and Future Food Institute that 120 students from Campania’s agricultural and hospitality institutions in a creative marathon to rethink food models and enhance biodiversity, turning the hackathon into an educational, interdisciplinary and participatory experience.
Qui il programma: https://innovationvillage.it/eventi-iv-edizione-2025/
