Innovation
We collaborate with industry and society to expand the frontiers of knowledge and drive cultural, social, and economic impact nationwide

Corporate partnerships

Innovation means creating knowledge, evolving it, and transforming it into opportunities for social and economic progress. At UNIPI, our researchers address real-world challenges in close collaboration with companies, often providing access to cutting-edge technologies not available in-house. Through this strong partnership, our students benefit from an education that remains tightly aligned with the evolving demands of the labor market.

Innovation in Numbers

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Networking

The interplay between research, industry, and society is a vital engine of innovation. UNIPI actively cultivates this dialogue through structured initiatives such as Converging Skills and Innovation Lunches, as well as through opportunities enabled by our vibrant Alumni community.

Entrepreneurial Culture

Innovation is also driven by cultivating an entrepreneurial culture—one that enables knowledge to flow seamlessly between academia and industry.

To support this vision, the University of Pisa has launched the course “Startup and Multidisciplinarity: A Roadmap”and established the Contamination Lab—spaces designed to spark creativity, foster interdisciplinary collaboration, and equip the academic community with entrepreneurial skills.

Business Acceleration: Start Attractor

Transforming knowledge into impact also means fostering innovative enterprises born from research. UNIPI actively promotes an entrepreneurial mindset through concrete initiatives that support the creation and growth of early-stage ventures.

Start Attractor, launched in collaboration with local institutions and leading industrial partners, guides promising ideas from the lab to the market—empowering researchers and innovators to turn their visions into reality.

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The prototype, developed by the Department of Information Engineering, uses electromagnetic signals to detect and locate every object in its...
An immersive experience at Suvignano — once a mafia estate, now a beacon of civic renewal — brought together students from seven European universities to explore social innovation, sustainability, and...
Una piattaforma tecnologica innovativa dai ricercatori del Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione congiunge realtà virtuale e analisi dei segnali corporei per supportare nel trattamento dell’ansia
The European Commission invited Professor Alessio Cavicchi to the initiative “Entrepreneurial Skills and Competences Throughout Life”
Developed by engineers at the Department of Information Engineering at the University of Pisa, the device can monitor drug absorption at the target site and wirelessly transmit real-time data
Four students competing: three from Mathematics and one from Economics – Andrea Davini, Matteo Montorsi, Francesco Tissi and Cosimo Tavoletti 11 September 2025
The University’s course, now in its tenth edition, is aimed at students with foreign qualifications who do not meet the minimum requirements to enroll in a first-cycle degree programme
Running from 11 September to 27 October 2025, across all departments and in the Schools of Engineering and Medicine
The University of Pisa offers 82 postgraduate courses (45 first-level and 37 second-level), including 10 newly introduced this academic year