Expo Osaka: the Ministry of Enterprise and Made in Italy in the spotlight at the Italian Pavilion

The exhibition “Italy of Patents. Successful Inventions and Innovations” by the Ministry of Enterprise and Made in Italy was inaugurated today inside the Italian Pavilion at Expo 2025 in Osaka in the presence of the Deputy Minister Valentine Valentini and the general commissioner for Italy at the Japanese exhibition, Mario Vattani. The exhibition itinerary tells, through patents and industrial inventions, the Italian capacity to innovate by comparing different generations of creators: those who at the dawn of intellectual property protection individually filed their inventions making them available to society, and those who today continue to patent their works of genius, working increasingly in multidisciplinary teams and/or within universities, research centers and startups. The installation represents a synthesis of the over 100 patents that were exhibited at Palazzo Piacentini from November 18 to April 2, 2025: there is also a multimedia contribution that recalls all the innovations already exhibited at Mimit.

“Italy, the cradle of innovation that protects and enhances intellectual property as an authentic passport of our know-how in the world, finds in the initiatives that we bring to Osaka not only the celebration of its past but also the stimulus for a profound reflection on how the protection of creative genius represents the strategic key to increasing our present and future competitiveness,” said Deputy Minister Valentino Valentini. “The collaboration with the Ministry of Enterprise and Made in Italy is strategic to promote production chains and attract Japanese investments in our country, taking advantage of the global stage represented by the Expo,” said Ambassador Mario Vattani, General Commissioner for Italy at Expo 2025 Osaka. “From the Made in Italy Day to the L’Italia dei brevetti exhibition, up to the Intellectual Property Awards: many initiatives and tools to make Italian excellence protagonists, involving experts, companies and representatives of the various production chains.”

In addition to the exhibition, Mimit, in collaboration with Invitalia and Netval, today presented the 11 winners of the Intellectual Property Awards (6 of the Ipa Award and 5 of the Female Entrepreneurship Award), Italian excellences who have distinguished themselves in the field of technological innovation and patent development. Together with Deputy Minister Valentini, the following spoke at the event: Maria Chiara di Guardo, Vice President of Netval; Ernesto Somma, Head of Investment Management Unit at Invitalia and Federico Novembrini, Head of Knowledge Share (Netval). The Intellectual Property Award is a competition reserved for Italian universities, national public research bodies and scientific hospital and care institutions that hold patents. The aim of the initiative is to highlight the strong innovative potential of the national public research system and its contribution to technological progress and economic growth, demonstrated by the scientific results achieved and protected by filing patents.