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Entopan is an innovation provider based in Catanzaro (Italy), which implements programs of acceleration and integration for start-ups, businesses and social organizations, supporting them with a view to open innovation and digital transformation. Adopting a method that synthesizes science and knowledge, technical and humanistic disciplines, Entopan builds intelligent networks that generate innovative ideas, enhance human capital and improve performance.

Entopan is structured in 4 areas of expertise: Advisory, Finance, ICT, Communication & Multimedia.

The Advisory area is concerned with integrated strategic consulting, devising concepts aimed at development, empowerment and transformation. Entopan accompanies its partners along the entire innovation process chain: auditing, assessment, pre-incubation, incubation, acceleration, integration, development and research, design thinking, competitive positioning, funding, investments.

Through its Finance area, Entopan builds solutions for the sustainability of growth and innovation processes. It identifies and motivates investors, donors and financiers, activating the most effective economic instruments, building networks that unite seemingly distant worlds and favoring the emergence of a common understanding in relation to a development objective and its potential, not least in terms of performance.

ICT, on the other hand, is the Entopan area which, in implementing industry paradigms 4.0, already in line with vision of society 5.0, deals with the design, development, production and marketing of software, multimedia products, platforms, apps, web portals, along with proprietary and multi-channel technological solutions and digital tools, aimed at promoting the automation and digitization of processes.

Finally, Communication & Multimedia is the area through which Entopan, by adopting a smart strategy that integrates innovation, design and storytelling, builds communication projects and contemporary styles that facilitate the positioning of brands with a strong and recognizable identity. Entopan’s work is dedicated to an ethical vision of communication, intended as a transparent rendering of the vision and products offered by the brand, creating logos, packaging, publishing products, digital interfaces and marketing strategies.

The association was founded in 2004 by a group of ex-students of Prof. Luca Meldolesi who over the last 20 years have put to the test principles such as possibilism, the method of affection, the teachings of economist Albert Hirschman, and the courage of innocence of intellectual Eugenio Colorni.

These principles are difficult to explain, and they required long and constant practice on the part of the founders. The principles that inspire the Association are summarized in the following 10 points:

1. It is an association of ex-students, but is open to anyone who shares the same principles.
2. It is an association in which people have a “passion for the possible”, which means that they fight and commit themselves in order to make change possible.
3. It is an association devoted to the unity of the country and to promoting horizontal networks alongside the vertical ones.
4. It is an association that believes in the importance of international dialogue and promotes cultural change by encouraging the young and not-so-young to confront international realities, but also seeks to promote the return and the appreciation of anyone who has benefited from these experiences overseas.
5. It is an association that promotes personal growth and improvement (private interest) and the safeguarding of the public interest.
6. It is an association that would like to be known for practising experimental thinking and for meritocracy.
7. It is an association that believes in interdisciplinarity, not as a slogan, but as an actual practice.
8. It is an association that directs its attention both to businesses and to public administration, the real drivers of development.
9. It is an association that closely follows policy developments in the fields of economics, administration, politics, and law.
10. It is an association in which culture and history are valued. It is attentive to inter-generational dialogue and to the upbringing of new generations and children.

The association works on initiatives concerning the public administration sector, quality of spending, and evaluation, and on promoting the private small business sector through motivational and consultancy activities.