Policy Forum of the IKINET Project

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• Policy Forum of the IKINET Project
• Regional competence centres and European
  knowledge and innovation networks an
  international comparison of innovation cluster
  policies
• How to promote creativity and new innovative
  projects and companies
• The TEST S.c.a r.l. experience
• Prof. Vincenzo Torrieri
• TEST S.c.a r.l. President

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TEST S.c.a r.l. The origin

• TEST S.c.a r.l. is a consortium company with
  limited liability in charge of operating the
  Center of Competence for Transport Systems of the
  Campania Region (Italy).
• The Center of Competence was established in the
  course of a three year project co-financed with
  the European Structural Regional Funds through
  the Regional Operative Program 2000/2006, aimed
  at realizing a regional network of Research
  resources (laboratories and competences) intended
  to integrate the relevant research offer, enable
  the qualification of advanced transport systems
  and satisfy the innovation demand of the
  transportation industry.
• The main challenges addressed by the Centre of
  Competence are
• the reduction of environmental pollution,
• the transport safety,
• the transport systems efficiency.

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TEST S.c.a r.l. Partners

• MISSION
• provide advanced Engineering Services for the
  qualification of advanced transport vehicles
  and transport systems
• carry out Research activities and participate at
  reference project in the field with relevant
  Private and Public stakeholders
• support Spin-offs and perform Technology
• deliver highly-qualified Training on Transport
  Technologies

The company TEST S.c.a.r.l. was founded on 1st
February 2006 by the Centre of Competence project
partners.
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TEST Laboratories
PROPULSION CHAIN
VEHICLES
TRANSPORT SYSTEMS

• Power Train and Vehicle Lab
• Transportation electrical systems and drives Lab

• Transportation vehicles Lab
• Flight Test and Flight simulation Lab
• Hydrodynamic Lab

• Road safety Lab
• ITS Intelligent Transport System Lab
• Transportation territory Lab

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Main Cooperations

• FIREMA TRASPORTI S.p.A, PIAGGIO Aeroindustries,
  Consorzio TECNOLOGIS
• Financed Project Public-Private Laboratory TEST
  X TRANSPORT
• The project focuses on the innovation in railway
  and aeronautic vehicles and on the introduction
  of advanced methods of design (also by applying
  Virtual Reality) and of production with composite
  materials

• ALENIA Aeronautica
• Testing of structural characterization of
  composite fuselage panels

• ANSALDO BREDA
• Static and fatigue structural testing for the
  qualification of a railway boogie

• FIREMA
• Static and fatigue structural testing for the
  qualification of a railway boogie

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• A New Company for innovation in Transport
• Test S.c.a r.l. is going to constitute a new
  company dedicated to testing activities for the
  development of nautic, flight and terrestrial
  vehicles and their components. The new company
  will manage the TEST Vehicles Laboratory, in
  Caserta, where the following laboratories are
  located

• Static and fatigue structural testing of
• full-scale large vehicles components
• Virtual Reality Centre
• Experimental estimation of Inertia tensors
• Virtual Crash Test

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• Thanks for your attention

Prof. ing.Vincenzo Torrieri President TEST
S.c.a r.l. University of Naples Federico II Via
Nuova Agnano, 11 80125 NAPLES - ITALY Tel. 39
081 7685123 Fax [phone] e.mail
info_at_crdctest.it www.crdctest.it