Collaborations with many research centres and institutions have been started in the projects on innovation and local area systems: Automobili Lamborghini spa, CAMI (Ca' Foscari University, Italy), Cirsfid, Fondazione Mario Del Monte, EC JRC-IS (Seville, ES), Provincia di Livorno, R&I s.r.l., REBEL, Regione Emilia-Romagna, Regione Toscana. Specific cooperation agreements have been signed with education institutions in Modena, the Crafts Museum (New Delhi, India) and the Arizona State University (AZ, US).