VIDEO | Tedeschi (Digital Angels & adjunct): “Innovation is crucial for our country system”

Piermario Tedeschi, Managing director Digital Angels & adjunct professor of the Luiss Business School

MILAN – “The role of innovation is crucial for our country system. Perhaps it is a theme that in recent years has not always been at the center of the political agenda, but I believe it can make a difference both for the large companies – Italian and otherwise – that are present in our territory today and for the entire production system, characterized by SMEs which precisely through innovation can become competitors in the global market”.

Piermario Tedeschi, Managing director Digital Angels & adjunct professor of the Luiss Business School, on the occasion of the third edition of the Young Innovators Business Forum organized by the National Association of Young Innovators, which took place in Milan.

“The innovations that we receive above all from the United States – he explained – allow us to provide structures – I am thinking for example of all the developments in the field of artificial intelligence – on which SMEs can build and create products, services, improve their production systems. This would not be possible if we did not receive this type of innovation.

And precisely the concept of open source, therefore digital tools and infrastructures that are open and available to be modified or applied, guarantees the possibility of bridging that innovative and productive gap that today objectively Italy, but also the whole of Europe , is experiencing compared to the rest of the world. The last five years of the European Commission have seen a proliferation of important legislative interventions precisely to regulate innovation and technology: I am thinking of the latest AI Act, but also of the GDPR, which represented excellence at a global level for managing data personal and privacy.

However, I believe that excessive regulation then leads to a lower ability to innovate. The hope as a digital entrepreneur, but also as an academic teacher – concluded Tedeschi – is that regulation, however important, leaves first place to what can be innovation, development, incentives and investments in what it is the new technology and with artificial intelligence it is representing the so-called third digital revolution”.