On December 11th it took place at the Corte di Arenaro in Torre in Pietra - Rome, the fifth edition of SELEX Communications' Innovation Award, an initiative that aims at valorizing and awarding the research activities and the most original and innovative projects related to the Company's business. The awarded projects will participate, in the spring 2010, at Finmeccanica's Innovation Award, which has be thought to promote and award the innovative competences of the Companies of the Group
During this edition, the requests for participation were 111, of which 70 were coming from Italy and the rest from the foreign sites of SELEX Communications. Four were the awarded projects and 11 the patents that were mentioned as relevant for possible applications in the products' segments of the Company.
The event, introduced by Mr. Giancarlo Grasso, CEO of SELEX Communications, witnessed the presence of several guests among which Mr. Maglione, SVP Human Resources of Finmeccanica, Mr. Italo Picciochci, Central Function of Technical, Industrial and Commercial Development of Finmeccanica, Gen. Nazzareno Gabrielli, Chairman of SELEX Communications, Mr. Luciano Criscuoli, General Director Italian Space Agency, Gen. Pietro Finocchio, General Director TELEDIFE, and Gen. Pasquale Lavacca, Head of the III Department of the Carabinieri General Staff.
"We have to set amtiitious goals in the field of Innovations: who takes common paths can not find anything new. That's the reason why innovation is an important factor of the Finmeccanica Group, and of course of out Company - Mr Grasso underlined, remembering that during his previous role in Finmeccanica, it was Mr. Grasso himself that launched for the first time the Innovation in 2004 Award along with Mr. Maglione, Mr. Mantovani and Mr. Aparo. "Today the Innovation Award has reached a level of participation, involvement and quality that is extremely important and that characterizes the image of the Group".
"Innovation can be of two types: sustaining innovation, to improve the performances and the competences in an existing market, and the disruptive innovation, to conquer new markets" Gen. Cardinali concluded. "I believe and in this moment and especially in the field of telecommunications, the most important one is the disruptive innovation. From the statistics proposed of the Innovation Award that have been presented by Mrs. Santoli, we have seen that the communication sector is the one where most of the innovation takes place".
Links to movies of the event will be published soon within this news.
THE PATENTS OF THE INNOVATION AWARD
Method of group learning for a network having a tree typology.
Claudio Armani, Pierpaolo Loreti, Giuseppe Bianchi, Natalino Legato.
Procedure for the preparation of a super-hydrophobic film
Alessandro Garibbo,Corrado Boragno,Francesco Gagliardi
Method for the building of a wireless wide band multi-channel network with a hierarchical tree structure.
Gianluca Mandò
Method for the management of a mobile communication network having a tree topology.
Claudio Armani, Natalino Legato, Pierpaolo Loreti, Andrea Detti
Procedure for the management of test automatic systems.
Paolo Venanzangeli, Giuseppe Mongiardo
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Vincenzina Brindisi, Francesco Calabrò,Tito Mattei, Marco Raspa
Protection device for radio communication equipments.
Gabriele Fagioli
Electronic receiver of amplitude modulated signals and related elaboration method.
Francesco Gualtieri,Simone Menci
Device of audio communication in conference, network and method.
Pierluigi Rossetti,Giorgio Beniamino
Method and automatic control system of the flight formation for UAVs.
Sergio Curinga, Andrea Rechichi
Procedure for generation of a tree of coverege of the links between comunication network nodes with improved reaction time
Luca Spinacci, Achille Sogliani, Alberto Civardi, Maurizio Mongelli,Giancarlo Portomauro, Mario Marchese
PROPOSALS
Evolution of the development of the new solid state 10 Kw HF transmitter development
Paolo Del Re e Giovanni Mancuso
TETRA Wireless ad-hoc NETwork
Alfredo Vinciguerra e Federico Frosali, Domenico Di Grande, Paola Criscione, Veronica Sostegni, Daniele Tarchi, Matteo Rosi, Luca Adamo, Massimo Guerrini, Filippo Nesi, Stefano Giuliani, Alberto Galelli, Alberto Civardi
Design of a Software Defined Antenna (SDA)
Simon Benham and Ed Totten, David Atkins
RT-150/N Backup Radio (BuR)
Fabrizio Nuvolone e Alessandro Alimenti, Alessio Morelli, Devid Pezzetta, Federico Torretta, Gabriele Pulsoni, Paolo Fulvi Mari, Roberto Scimia, Valentino Liberati, Alessandro Viviani
