Open Innovation in Alpine SMEs

DIGEP, namely the Department of Management and Production Engineering of the Politecnico di Torino, is aimed at providing a structured approach to the education of professionals, combining a more traditional technical knowledge with a solid expertise in economics and business management.

The research activity carried out at DIGEP deals with economics (analysis of industrial markets and regulation of service systems), business management (management control and business organization), and, more recently, also industrial legislation (patents, contracts and regulations in competition and financial markets).

Together with CSP, DIGEP works in the OpenAlps project for Piedmont. Its work package is the basis of the support of Open Innovation processes. It delivers all necessary information for the development of successful Open Innovation scenarios for Alpine SMEs. DIGEP is developing a methodology for Open Innovation processes of SMEs which takes into account diverging Alpine Space regions.