In today's economic climate, the ability to innovate has become a key factor in the global competitiveness of nations and businesses. To promote this process and create an environment conducive to the development and dissemination of new ideas, a proposal has been put forward to create an Innovation Hub at the former municipal slaughterhouse in Lamezia Terme. An innovation hub is a place connected to a network of locations dedicated to innovation, collaboration, and learning among businesses, researchers, investors, and other players in the innovation ecosystem. The city of Lamezia Terme and its metropolitan area now feel the need for an innovation hub that offers guidance, training, support, technology transfer, and access to financing for companies that want to take advantage of the opportunities offered by digital technologies and the 4.0 transformation. The location identified by the Lamezia administration could even aspire to become a digital innovation hub, which is a particular type of innovation hub that requires large spaces and focuses specifically on digital technologies and their impact on the production system. A digital innovation hub has the task of stimulating and promoting demand for digital innovation, strengthening the level of knowledge and awareness of the opportunities offered by digitalization, and facilitating access to the resources and skills necessary for the digital transformation of businesses. In this sense, this type of activity remains within the framework of ‘urban regeneration’ measures, which the area feels are urgently needed to reactivate both social and economic growth. Hence, an architectural project that aims to redevelop the area without distorting it, i.e. by removing the superfluous and bringing it back to life with renewed ‘sustainable technologies’.
Nell'attuale contesto economico, la capacità di innovare è diventata un fattore chiave per la competitività globale delle nazioni e delle imprese. Per promuovere questo processo e creare un ambiente favorevole allo sviluppo e alla diffusione di nuove idee, è stata avanzata la proposta di creare un Innovation Hub presso l'ex macello comunale di Lamezia Terme. Un polo dell'innovazione è un luogo collegato a una rete di sedi dedicate all'innovazione, alla collaborazione e all'apprendimento tra imprese, ricercatori, investitori e altri attori dell'ecosistema dell'innovazione. La città di Lamezia Terme e la sua area metropolitana sentono ora la necessità di un polo dell'innovazione che offra orientamento, formazione, supporto, trasferimento tecnologico e accesso ai finanziamenti per le aziende che vogliono sfruttare le opportunità offerte dalle tecnologie digitali e dalla trasformazione 4.0. La sede individuata dall'amministrazione di Lamezia potrebbe addirittura aspirare a diventare un polo di innovazione digitale, ovvero un tipo particolare di polo di innovazione che richiede grandi spazi e si concentra specificamente sulle tecnologie digitali e sul loro impatto sul sistema produttivo. Un polo di innovazione digitale ha il compito di stimolare e promuovere la domanda di innovazione digitale, rafforzare il livello di conoscenza e consapevolezza delle opportunità offerte dalla digitalizzazione e facilitare l'accesso alle risorse e alle competenze necessarie per la trasformazione digitale delle imprese. In questo senso, questo tipo di attività rimane nell'ambito delle misure di “rigenerazione urbana”, che l'area ritiene urgentemente necessarie per riattivare la crescita sia sociale che economica. Da qui un progetto architettonico che mira a riqualificare l'area senza stravolgerla, ovvero eliminando il superfluo e riportandola in vita con rinnovate “tecnologie sostenibili”.
Angelico, E. (2025). Innovation_hub a Lamezia Terme. In Città bella, città per tutti (pp. 98-100). Milano : Di Baio.
Innovation_hub a Lamezia Terme
Angelico, Emanuele
2025-07-01
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In today's economic climate, the ability to innovate has become a key factor in the global competitiveness of nations and businesses. To promote this process and create an environment conducive to the development and dissemination of new ideas, a proposal has been put forward to create an Innovation Hub at the former municipal slaughterhouse in Lamezia Terme. An innovation hub is a place connected to a network of locations dedicated to innovation, collaboration, and learning among businesses, researchers, investors, and other players in the innovation ecosystem. The city of Lamezia Terme and its metropolitan area now feel the need for an innovation hub that offers guidance, training, support, technology transfer, and access to financing for companies that want to take advantage of the opportunities offered by digital technologies and the 4.0 transformation. The location identified by the Lamezia administration could even aspire to become a digital innovation hub, which is a particular type of innovation hub that requires large spaces and focuses specifically on digital technologies and their impact on the production system. A digital innovation hub has the task of stimulating and promoting demand for digital innovation, strengthening the level of knowledge and awareness of the opportunities offered by digitalization, and facilitating access to the resources and skills necessary for the digital transformation of businesses. In this sense, this type of activity remains within the framework of ‘urban regeneration’ measures, which the area feels are urgently needed to reactivate both social and economic growth. Hence, an architectural project that aims to redevelop the area without distorting it, i.e. by removing the superfluous and bringing it back to life with renewed ‘sustainable technologies’.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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