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MindSh@re, Finmeccanica’s learning organisation is the Open Innovation project created in 2003 aimed at valorising shared technological assets of the Group companies.

Designed with the objective of linking people in a network that functions as a multiplier in the generation of new ideas, products and talents, today it is an engine for real value innovation.  Through its technological communities, it focuses on sharing research activities on subjects considered to be at the forefront from the industrial standpoint.

MindSh@re’s mission is to be the hub capable of stimulating a collaborative and interconnected network that involves Group personnel and companies, technology partners, universities and research centres.

MindSh@re

Its main objectives are the following:

• Support business development of Group companies;
• Make more efficient and effective use of resources in the different companies and affiliated research centres;
• Systematically identify possible synergies among companies through an overall Group vision;
• Link people in a knowledge network in order to multiply the possibility of generating new ideas, products and talents;
• Transform the diversification and wealth of technological competences existing in the various companies into a competitive advantage for the Group;
• Share, grow and valorise the wealth of people, passion, knowledge, processes and technologies that exist in the Group.

In order to achieve these aims, MindSh@re has created a dynamic structure comprised of seven technological communities that cover the main Group competence sectors:

• Radar
• Advanced Materials and Enabling Technologies (AM&ET)
• Integrated Environment for Engineering Capabilities (IE4EC) (Processes e Tools)
• Logistics and Services (L&S)
• Simulation for Training (SET2)
• Software
• Intellectual Property

Currently more than 600 Group technical employees, 35 universities and 28 civilian and military organisations participate in this “network”.

MindSh@re Event 2008