Sicily Valley: where the hi-tech supply chain connecting skills, businesses, and the region was born
Sicily Valley: innovation that grows through collaboration
Date: November 21, 2025, at 10:00 a.m.
Location: Ecomuseo Mare Memoria Viva – Palermo
On the occasion of the Sicily Innovation Award 2025
In the regional hi-tech landscape, micro and small businesses face increasingly complex challenges: high barriers to entry, limited resources, fragmented skills, and a growing demand for integrated solutions. In this scenario, competing alone is no longer enough. A model capable of combining visions, skills, and processes is needed.
Sicily Valley was created precisely for this reason: to build joint governance that transforms individual entities into a structured technological supply chain capable of coordinating investments, sharing know-how, and responding to the market with a single strategy. Stable cooperation between companies raises the organizational maturity of the supply chain, generates economies of scale, and increases the overall reliability of the system.
Today, the district brings this vision to the Sicily Innovation Award 2025, participating with an Innovation Desk hosted on the Innovation Island platform. A space dedicated to those who want to discover:
- what opportunities does the joint governance model offer?
- what services are available to local businesses;
- which entities are already part of the district network;
- how a shared high-tech supply chain can generate added value and greater competitiveness.
Innovation Island, with its mission to connect ideas, businesses, and initiatives, is the ideal setting to present the district's progress and consolidate new collaborations between companies, universities, research centers, and local administrations.
Today's event is an important step in building a regional technological ecosystem that aims to create smart, sustainable, and connected cities, and that sees cooperation as the key to a stronger and more inclusive digital future.
