Tuscany has a long and well-established tradition in the ICT field. The region hosts universities and leading research centers in Italy and Europe.
The main Italian companies in this sector nad some of the major multinationals have invested in Tuscany by launching collaborative project with universities and by financing several important research projects in the fields of informatics, satellite systems, radar and antennas, electronics, second generation of RFID systems, applications for cultural heritage management, video-surveillance and robotics, among many others.
The strongly research-oriented environment, at both the basic and applied level, is not only a fundamental resource for the numerous major italian and foreign companies that collaborate with the universities of Tuscany, but also contributed to generate a large number of start-ups and spin-offs focused on the develpment ofextremely innovative products which are often pioneers on the technological frontier.


The excellency segments of the ICTin Tuscany:
* artificial vision, video-surveillance, digital libraries and natural interaction
* telecommunications, microwave and wireless systems and applications
* electronics and microelectronics
* satellite systems and applications
* radar and antennas systems and components, radar imaging
* applications for domotics, robotics virtual reality, haptic interfaces e-health, bioengineering and biomedicine
* application for space, nautical, aeronautical and defence sectors
* technologies, systems and applications for cultural heritage management
* optical fibers, photonic and laser communication
* remote sensing and monitoring
* informatics and software development
* security-related technologies, systems and applications
* bioinformatics.