 Hi, Massimiliano Graniere, I'm a professor at the University of Brescia, Department of Mechanical Industrial Engineering. Even if I am a lawyer by education, I enjoy teaching technical people technology transfer and intellectual property issues. Technology transfer is important because we live in an era of growing challenges for the mankind. We have to feed the worldwide population, fix problems at energy level, fix diseases, and give a better life to people and much of the responses to these big challenges, grand challenges as the European Commission said, come from technology and technology transfer is the answer to this question, is the way we make sure that the technology that comes out of research efforts and investments is directed at concurring in the solution of these problems. What traditional tools for the exploitation of results include the scientific publication, but scientific publication while important, still important, is not sufficiently significant for private companies to undertake the exploitation of research results. So we resort to different tools, other tools, all supported by intellectual property protection, then include a variety of arrangement and transactions. We sell intellectual property, we out-license intellectual property, we form spin-off and launch proof-of-concept programs with the aim of contributing to the maturation of the technology and to increasing the speed by which a technology reaches the market as a new product or as a new process.