INNOVA

INNOVA, Regional Centre of Competence for Development and Transfer of Innovation for Cultural and Environmental Heritage, was established in 2003 thanks to Campania region and to part of the network of regional public research, working in the field of cultural and environmental heritage. This network joins researchers belonging to all technical/scientific areas involved in the development and transfer of innovation to cultural and environmental heritage.

INNOVA’s goal is to connect supply and demand for innovation, to develop new approaches, methodologies and tools in order to promote the conservation of cultural and environmental heritage, taking into account the needs expressed by both firms and end users.

The CRdC aims to:

1. co-ordinate, integrate and optimise the human and technological resources available within the academic and research world in order to promote innovation in the field of the safeguarding and exploitation of cultural and environmental heritage through the making up of a range of “demand-driven”, oriented towards innovation services

2. turn the opportunities offered by the market into business and stimulate the birth of firms and academic spin-offs

3. monitor supply and demand for innovation in its own filed, supplying to both public and private sectors the required technology transfer solutions;

4. anticipate the need for innovation expressed by businesses, including operating with a technology push approach

5. activate synergies to stimulate interaction between public sector, academic world and firms with the objective of promoting the growth of knowledge and the incorporation of new technologies.

INNOVA has developed integrated services for diagnostic, conservation and renewal, promotion and use of cultural and environmental heritage.

These services can be grouped in:

1. Environment and archaeology

2. Built environment and architecture

3. Conservation, restoration and promotion of ancient and historic finds

4. Plant engineering, organisation and management of museum structures

5. Application of new information technology and communications to cultural heritage

6. Land use management

7. Innovation, diffusion and integration

Among the main services offered by INNOVA:

1. Analysis of ancient damaged DNA

2. Structure and defeat analysis using thermal imaging

3. Integrated service for preventive archaeology

4. Digital mapping from satellite images

5. Archaeological heritage contextualisation

6. Dating using an ultra-sensitive accelerator mass spectrometry system

7. Determination of electrical magnetic and electromagnetic fields in urban sites

8. Laser cleaning/ablation system

9. Virtual reconstructions of environments

10. Training courses design and organisation

Among the main laboratories:

1. Centre for isotopic Research on Cultural and Environmental Heritage

2. Mobile laboratory for security, preservation and enhancement of historical and archaeological heritage

3. Laboratory for management of organic incrustations and weeds on monuments and in archaeological sites