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Prysmian has a number of established
collaborative relationships with major
universities and research centres in various
countries around the world: China, the
Netherlands, New Zealand, Brazil, Finland,
United Kingdom, United States, Spain
and Italy. These relationships include
those with Politecnico di Milano in Italy,
Centro di Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento em
Telecomunicacoes in Brazil, Universitat
Politecnica de Catalunya in Spain and the
University of South Carolina in the United
States. In 2015, the Prysmian Group devised,
incollaborationwiththePolitecnicodiMilano,
the new "Design driven funnel" method
of innovation to develop new solutions for
cable systems. A team comprising members
from the Prysmian R&D department and its
business units has identified four solutions
from a pool of 70 ideas. Design driven funnel
is an important example of Open Innovation
and has been successfully applied to the Oil
& Gas and SURF businesses.
Joining forces
with the world's universities
The latest edition of the Prize for Inventions
held in 2015 made awards for patents granted
in 2013. A total of 30 patents received awards,
reflecting the intense work of Prysmian's R&D
professionals, who have ensured a steady stream
of new patents for the Group's patent portfolio,
especially in high-tech and high value-added
segments.
Rewarding the professionals...
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Beings" received awards as part of an initiative
promoted by Prysmian Group together with
Human Foundation, an organisation active in the
field of social innovation. The competition was
very well received by many Italian universities,
as confirmed by the large number of students
who took part, six of whom were prize winners.
... and aspiring innovators