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AI4I Distinctive Features

Our Polar Stars: Entrepreneurship, Empowerment, Impact

AI4I will attract and empower talented, entrepreneurial, young scientists aiming at producing an impact at the crossroads between science, innovation, and industrial transformation. Internationally competitive salaries, performance bonuses, a dedicated HPC facility, joint labs, industrial partnerships, an ecosystem designed to boost the launch and development of start ups, are among the key distinctive features of AI4I.

Multiple Functions

Science, Innovation, Industrial Impact

Our Mission

A productive and sustainable combination between curiosity driven and application-oriented research

Vision, Orchestration, and Flow

AI4I as an Evolving Network of Contracts and Collaborative Agreements

Design

A Portfolio of Independent, Interconnected Research Units

AI4I and its Ecosystem

AI4I: Key Actors, Components and Functions

The AI Foundry @ AI4

A computational and data platform that supports and accelerates the research lifecycle by using AI-based modeling

Access to Capital

Access to key national and international VCs to support startups

Research Network, IAS

Turin is the primary location to implement the mission of AI4I. Outstations and Joint Research Centres, together with an Institute of Advanced Studies complete the organizational setting of AI4I

Talent and Start Garden

A start-up ecosystem: researchers, scientists, tech professionals and students collaborate on innovative business ideas

Academy

A platform for innovative training in AI

The AI Foundry @ AI4I

Our Interconnector: Data, Models and HPC at AI4I

The AI Foundry @ AI4I

SUK: a System to produce User Knowledge

Application-Oriented Research @ AI4I: a Middle Ground of two Cultures

The Middle Ground: Some Key Ingredients of Our Organization

Evaluation of processes, organizations and strategies

Ad hoc functions mutuated from the business world (office for research project management, office business development and technological transfer)

A management control system to define, monitor and report KPIs of the structure and its constituents

Contractual schemes to facilitate and promote partnerships with national and international entities

The Turin Ecosystem

Situated in the scenic, sophisticated and innovative city of Turin in the Piedmont Region, AI4I enjoys a strategic location. Turin is recognized for its scientific, industrial and technological ecosystems, as well as for its growing number of startups, research laboratories, incubators, accelerators, venture capital funds and corporate ventures. Turin enjoys a central location with respect to the Alpine region and to Switzerland, and it is close to Milan and to Genoa, where the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) is based.