Seizing the opportunities of a strategic sector such as aerospace was the focus of the talk "Territorial space economy, start-up and business innovation, opportunities", held on the occasion of the first Aerospace Festival , which ends today at the Olbia Archaeological Museum .
In a territory, the north-east, which is positioned on a trajectory of innovation, attracting investments, supporting start-ups and training skills is the mission of public bodies; proposing projects and innovation projected into the future is the challenge for companies and private investors.
The birth of the Department for innovation and development in the Olbia university centre, announced by the Rector of the Uniss, Gavino Mariotti, creates concrete opportunities for growth in the area .
The theme developed starting from the numbers, introduced by the moderator of the panel, the university professor Antonio Usai: over 1,000 billion dollars by 2030 the value that the aerospace sector will generate in the world economy, this year 2,000 jobs available in Italy.
Obama's Space Act , a law aimed at liberalizing the market, is an epochal turning point that has triggered the passage of space from a research and military area to a land of conquest for private companies .
«Today private investments have exceeded public ones - explained Gianluca Dettori , chairman and partner of Primo Ventures, an 86 million euro fund that invests in digital technologies and the new space economy - since logistics has been facilitated and costs have become more accessible business models have multiplied: telecommunications, transport and space infrastructure, the investments that can be made concern the entire supply chain. From data arriving from space it is possible to create previously unthinkable services and now we are also witnessing the reverse phenomenon: startups that want to bring orbiting factories into space, technologies born on earth but which, by exploiting the absence of gravity, can generate new things".
Aerospace that takes the form of applications, at the speakers' table Abinsula , a former Sardinian start-up that has become one of the main Italian players in automation and software; 160 employees and various offices scattered throughout the Peninsula.
«Before everything was done in large companies, then the supply chain opened up and the world of aerospace also arrived in Sardinia - said Antonio Solinas , research and development manager - investing in the territory, we do it: just in these days we have created a new joint venture with Aerotech and we expect the hiring of 50 people in the field of agent computers and artificial intelligence».
Investments, increasingly necessary in the field of skills: the professional figures will have to be trained in the driving sectors , commented the general manager of Aspal, Maika Aversano . For example, resources have already been allocated to create qualified figures to be employed in the Einstein Telescope project.
Among the technological challenges that of Geasar : the airport operation manager, Caterina Brigaglia, recounted the path towards sustainable mobility of people and goods undertaken by the Costa Smeralda.
The future focuses on aero advance. «We are very attentive to this new eVtol market (vertical take-off electric aircraft) and already last year, together with SEA, we commissioned a study on the main ports: where they could be located and the possible demand of the territory. It is a rapidly expanding market, the first eVtol in Italy should enter service in 2026 on the occasion of the Cortina Olympics».
«The task of small local agents is to prepare the ground so that youth entrepreneurship can grow, take root and develop - says the general manager of Cipnes, Aldo Carta - it is necessary to create an adequate ecosystem to make it grow and to make a culture of business innovation".
An objective shared with Invitalia , the national development agency, owned by the Ministry of the Economy, present with the communication manager Federica Garbolina . "We will continue to work on the optimal use of tools such as Smart&start and we have a strong commitment to the inclusion of women in this sector - she said - an area where ability and intelligence are the masters".