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MAKE IN ITALY – A great success in NYC
Full house at the Italian Cultural Institute (ICI) of New York for the opening of the exhibition “MAKE IN ITALY – 50 YEARS OF ITALIAN BREAKTHROUGHS: FROM THE FIRST PC TO THE FIRST SPACE-BOUND ESPRESSO MACHINE”, on November 12, 2015. More than 200 people showed up. Giorgio van Straten, writer and ICI Director (standing in the photo…
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Italian Makers: the Future of Italy?
It was the celebration of Italians who don’t whine. The Makers – those who make things on their own, who have the courage to take risks, challenging patterns and conventions — gathered together in the Parco della Musica in Rome, October 2 to 5. A movement of young inventors and dreamers, non interested in a…
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October: Italy Culture Month in New York, celebrating Italian creativity in technology
October is Italy Culture Month in New York. This year the Italian Heritage & Culture Committee of New York has chosen the theme “Italian Creativity – 1965 New York World’s Fair / 2015 Expo Milano – Celebrating 50 Years of Science and Technology”. Here is why. “The first desktop computer in the world”: that is how America…
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Italian Makers sono leader alla Maker Faire di New York
«Il governo italiano è leader nel capire l’importanza del movimento dei maker per la crescita economica di un Paese attraverso l’innovazione tecnologica». Me l’ha detto alla Maker Faire di New York Dale Dougherty, il fondatore di Maker Media, il gruppo multimediale che nove anni fa lancio’ la prima Maker Faire nella Bay Area, in California.…
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L’Italia che vogliamo: alla Maker Faire Rome
È stata la celebrazione dell’Italia anti-piagnisteo. I Makers, quelli che fanno le cose da soli, che hanno il coraggio di rischiare, sfidando schemi e convenzioni, si sono dati convegno nel Parco della Musica, a Roma, dal 2 al 5 ottobre: un movimento di inventori “in pantaloni di corti”, sognatori di novità, negatori del posto fisso.…
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Making it in NYC from Germany and Italy
Two delegations from Germany & Italy plus people from many other countries including Australia, Sweden, Korea and Jordan: they were all together last night at Brooklyn Borough Hall to discuss “challenges and rewards of starting up in New York City from abroad”. It was a great crowd, thanks to New York International, an organization founded…
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The Times They Are a-Changin’… also in Italy
The Times They Are a-Changin’… also in Italy, thanks of a new generation of startuppers who don’t wait anymore for something/somebody else, but take their own destiny in their hands. So said Riccardo Luna – (first from right in the photo) the founder of Wired.it and author of “Cambiamo tutto! Let’s change everything! The revolution…
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Stories of Innovators in New York and in Italy
The success of the New York Tech community – which is the subject of our book – is studied abroad by entrepreneurs, investors, scholars, and policy makers. It happens especially in Italy, where there are a lot of brilliant young people, including great engineers from the best “Politecnici”, who cannot find funding for their business…