They called it Harmonic Innovation Hub, it will be born in Catanzaro and is a strategic project launched by Entopan, a company that has been dealing with business consultancy on Open innovation and Digital transformation for 20 years and founded by the Calabrian entrepreneur Francesco Cicione who is its president. Now Entopan, with the involvement as main partner of 2EFFE Holding of the Ferraro Group, has signed a letter of intent with Azimut Liberaimpresa Sgr, a company of the Azimut Group which acts in the name and on behalf of the Infrastructure Fund for Growth.
A signature that represents the start of a path for the creation of the Harmonic Innovation Hub, an ecosystem that aims to be at the service of the South and the Mediterranean area. “This is a project – explains Francesco Cicione – with a high rate of creative and technological contamination, strongly oriented towards the construction of the common good and social capital in the era of the Super smart society 5.0 within which, through the full implementation of the new paradigm of harmonic innovation, dialogue between different worlds and disciplines can be steadily fostered, pursuing an effective and profitable synthesis between scientific, technological, social and moral research “.
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The establishment of a new holding is expected
The various operational steps include the establishment of the Holdig Harmonic IInnovation Group which will take over the full ownership of the initiative started by Entopan and will involve additional shareholders such as Santo Versace and Genesy Group in the governance. Governance will include economists such as Vittorio Coda and Luca Meldolesi, protagonists of innovation in the political and social fields such as Antonio Viscomi and Gianni Speranza, standard-bearers of digital innovation and fintech such as Riccardo Maria Monti and Alessandro M. Lerro.
To know the overall financial scope of the project, we will have to wait a little longer but in the meantime it has been announced that a further intervention is being defined for the development of the scale-up of the activities, also through the involvement of other national and international investment funds. The closing of the transaction, conditional among other things on the positive conclusion of the planning and due diligence activities in progress, is expected for the summer, while the start of the works is scheduled for the end of the year and the opening within the first half of 2023.
A campus designed by the archistar Massimo Roj
The project involves the construction of a campus on an area of over 20,000 square meters that will integrate the Academy, Business incubator, Co-working and Co-housing. All this after completing the acquisition, already bound by a preliminary contract, of a facility currently owned by Central Sicaf. The architectural concept was developed by Massimo Roj’s Progetto Cmr, archistar and author of major interventions all over the world. The development of an operational network is also planned in which 50 major national and international players, 100 innovative start-ups, university spin-offs and SMEs, 200 researchers, innovation managers and 40 centers of competence will be able to interact permanently. There are 200 workstations that will be reserved for professionals at facilitated conditions through the definition of specific agreements with the relevant Professional Orders and Funds, investors of the Infrastructure Fund for Growth. «Our Fund – says Andrea Cornetti, CEO of Real Estate and Infrastructures of Azimut Liberaimpresa Sgr – focuses on investments in social infrastructures capable of generating a positive impact on the economy, the environment and local society. This project has all the useful features to pursue the dual objective of sustainability and financial returns for our investors that we set ourselves when in 2020 we launched this innovative tool for the Italian market, which is why we are launching the necessary investigations “.