The National Award for Innovation is the most important startup competition in Italy. The winning startups of the fourteen Start Cups compete for the final of the PNI, i.e. the regional business plan competitions linked to Italian universities and public research bodies associated with PNICube.

 

The objective of the PNI is to support the creation of companies with a high innovation content and to promote the economic development of the territories of local competitions. Furthermore, the PNI aims to spread the corporate culture in the academic field and to foster the relationship between researchers, the business world and finance.