THE GAETANO MARZOTTO PRIZE: SEVENTH EDITION 2017
The Gaetano Marzotto Prize is looking for new business people and builders of the future who are able to combine innovation, business and society. The Prize supports an innovation platform to encourage new business start-ups. This is a strategy that increasingly aims at open innovation and internationalization, with a spirit of sharing between large companies and innovative young businesses.
ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE PRIZE
Established by Giannino Marzotto, the Gaetano Marzotto Prize, is one of the activities promoted by the Associazione Progetto Marzotto which was also founded by Giannino in 2010, together with his daughters, Cristiana, Maria Rosaria Gioia and Margherita, with Ferdinando Businaro as its Chairman and Cristiano Seganfreddo as Managing Director. The Prize was inspired by the Gaetano Marzotto, a well-known businessman of the 1900s, who knowingly combined business and society, culture and the territory. Matteo Marzotto has been President of the Association since 2013.
AIM
The Gaetano Marzotto Prize identifies and supports the most promising business plans by creating a consolidated synergy between the ecosystem of innovation and the Italian industrial sector, with an international perspective.
THE NUMBERS
Since 2010, the Gaetano Marzotto Prize has awarded about 5 million euros to Italian start-ups and innovators, through prizes and support services, with 286 finalists selected from more than 4.500 proposals received, including 40 incubators, accelerators and scientific and technological parks, and about one hundred jury members and other people actively involved. Overall, the Prize has generated tens of millions of euros in indirect investments.
