Improvement of cutting-edge techinacal skills and knowledge, developed and acquired on international scale by public and private partners in order to incubate innovative entrepreneurship (High Tech Entrepreneurship) within its reference area.

The agenda of training, research and innovation integrated projects is the instrument used as a framework to generate skills, creative competences and entrepreneurial innovation emerging from economic, social and environmental connection with the development and exploitation of enabling "cutting-edge technologies". The expected results from projects will be translated into job opportunities for knowledge-intensive services such as spin-offs, start-up, opening branches in the convergence regions, outsourcing of business functions, development of high value-added services.

The added value stands in the structure of the DHITECH:

• Private Partners represent the private industrial and research excellence and are positioned on productive sectors and cutting-edge technologies such as microelectronics, aerospace, electronic instrument, ICT, bio-medical technologies;

• Public Partners express excellence in research environments to develop solutions border on the topics of nanotechnology, tissue engineering, the Internet of the future, engineering organizations and extensive engineering automation.

Apulia region