It has been a year since former Prime Minister Mario Draghi, speaking about the Recovery Plan, stressed the need to invest in the Search and in the Development to adapt the country to the challenges of the current times.
In reality, investment in research and development in Italy is far from satisfactory. According to the latest ISTAT data, dating back to 2018, expenditure in the research sector was 25.2 billion (source: Istat), corresponding to approx. 1.4% of GDP.
By way of comparison, research expenditure in France is around 2.2% of GDP, in Germany 3% and in the UK 1.7%.
Investing less means having fewer resources, fewer professionals employed in research, resulting in a brain drain from our country, and ultimately inferior results to other European countries, on which we therefore end up being dependent in several respects.
The Defence Tech Group strongly believes in Research, and the internal investments and the activation of collaboration with leading Italian universities are continuous.
These are just some of the topics we are developing: CyberSpace, Quantum Computing, Bragg gratings applied to fibre-optic sensors for measurement and monitoring of critical infrastructure.
La technological sovereignty is a goal and can only be achieved through appropriate public-private ecosystems that foster it.
Source: https://www.valigiablu.it/ricerca-italia-investimenti/
