Kilometro Rosso

Kilometro Rosso is one of the leading Italian innovation districts, a place where research and business meet, and which acts as a technology transfer agent. Today, the campus hosts 80 Resident Partners – companies, laboratories, and research centers – with its 2,500 employees and researchers. The district believes in the Open Innovation paradigm, which focuses on activating synergies among individuals with different competencies. This results in the reduction of the time needed to develop innovative solutions to introduce to the market. In order to continue pursuing its mission, Kilometro Rosso offers a variety of services, both directly and through the Resident Partners community. Created and developed on the basis of private ownership, Kilometro Rosso chooses an inclusive approach, comprehensive of businesses, universities, geographical territory, and institutions, which work together to enhance their value as individual entities, increasing their competitiveness. Being a Resident Partner of Kilometro Rosso means having access to a wide range of relationships and skills, as well as to an architecturally unique context, which covers an area of 40 hectares, in the heart of Lombardy, one of the most advanced industrialized areas in Europe. Inaugurated in 2009, Kilometro Rosso and its Resident Partners represent a landmark on the international research and technology transfer scene: 31 laboratories, 50 funded R&D projects for 185 million Euros, 835 patents filed, 70,000 delegates from all over the world, 200 annual events that promote technological innovation with over 23,000 participants and more than 600,000 registrations per year. The campus also gains visibility thanks to its “red wall”, designed by Les Ateliers Jean Nouvel, and which is seen by over 100 million vehicles on highway A4 every year.