On Saturday night 11 March, as we well know, another announcement has arrived, by the President of the Government Giuseppe Conte, to underline how, Unfortunately, Our country is struggling to get up from this pandemic crisis. He comes, Indeed, an additional limitation to productive activities throughout the national territory has announced with the aim of limiting even more the spread of the contagion and therefore <<Italy's engine slows down, but it doesn't stop>> – These are the words of the premier – The government decides the production strategy of the country most suitable for the current scenario with intention, chiara, to limit contagion, affecting the economy as much as possible and above all the life of families, going to guarantee those essential services that cannot be arrested. From the analytical list of allowed activities, instead issued last night, It is clear that all activities relating to retail trade are suspended, while for example, Supervision services remain operational, even private. Therefore, Entering what are the government logics, Essential activities are allowed not only to daily life, such as supermarkets, pharmacies and manufacturers of health and complementary assets such as transport, but also those activities that, otherwise closed, they would go to engrave drastically on life habits, such as tobacconists and media. Equally clear, It is the intention of receiving and accompanying the change in the choice of consumer goods by the Italians, who will tend more and more to buy long -conservation food products such as sugar, farina, pasta, peeled, canned fish, that during the “survival or war economies” find more optimal use, As well as promoting home delivery services, useful for limiting the movements and assembly of people. We are, Indeed, Faced with a crisis not only health and economic, but also psychological, where everyone is put to the test, not being able to lead a lifestyle more “normal”. Italy, and with it the entire national production system, It is called to resist and find functional solutions to the ongoing situation, like the numerous companies and production processes reconverted to produce assets deemed, Today more than ever, essential.
And from this consideration the call to the action of the Minister for Technological Innovation and Digitization Paola Pisano was born, The Minister of Economic Development Stefano Patuanelli and the Minister of the University and Research Gaetano Manfredi, Together with Invitalia. Is calledInnova Italy And it is the invitation addressed to companies, university, public and private research centers and centers, associations, cooperative, consortia, Foundations and institutes to prepare solutions at the time of Covid-19 in three areas:
- finding, innovation or industrial conversion to guarantee the Availability of protection devices individual, and production of systems for the treatment of respiratory syndromes;
- finding innovative kits or technologies that facilitate the diagnosis of the Covid-19;
- technologies and tools that, in compliance with current legislation, allow or facilitate the monitoring, the prevention and the check of contagues.
They are called, so, to action the entities that already operate in the reference sectors or that can exploit their production capacity for a quick, provided that respectful of the standards, industrial conversion. All the legal entities interested in participation, they will find the dedicated form from today, 23 March, On the Innovation.gov.it website.
It should be remembered that the proposals must be reasonably implemented in the short term and that the solutions capable of making a difference in a moment of extreme urgency will have absolute priority.
Dr. Lamberti Giuseppe
