School Programme

Location

The PhD School will be held from June 23 to 25, 2025 in Naples and will take place at the University della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli in Complesso Santa Patrizia, Via Luciano Armanni 5.

Topic

Industrial skills in Electronics and Photonics and will cover all the aspects concerning the strategies to allow bright ideas, born in the Academia, to be protected and made available for the market.

Organization

After an introductory talk on an overview on patenting, start-up creation and business models, speakers from renowned industries (such as ST-Microelectronics, CISCO, Arduino, ELT Group) and former industry managers will illustrate virtuous examples and best practices from their own experience. Experience of some spin-off initiatives, from the Vanvitelli University, will be reported as an example of how bright ideas, conceived in the Academia, can result in successful start-up companies.

Workgroups will be organized as well, to allow the students to practice on how to move from ideas to business.

Up to 6 credits will be granted based on the attendance to the school and the workgroups activity results.

In the free time during the sessions, the students will also be able to visit the Anatomical Museum, home to an impressive collection of historical and anatomical specimens, within the Complesso di Santa Patrizia premises.

Some Historical Notes on Santa Patrizia Complex

The complex at its maximum extension occupies almost the entire double insula delimited by via Armanni and vico Limoncello.
The oldest nucleus was the monastery of SS. Nicandro and Marciano where in the 4th century the remains of Santa Patrizia were brought.
In the 10th century the monastery was rebuilt, and the internal church was built probably on the site of the pre-existing church of SS. Nicandro and Marciano.
At the beginning of the 16th century there was already a rectangular cloister adjacent to the long side of the church with fruit trees in the center overlooking the nuns' lodgings.
In the second half of the century Giovan Francesco di Palma expanded the internal church and built the large cloister.
In the 17th century Giovanni della Monica restored the old church and built the new external one orthogonal to the other.
In the 18th century the complex, damaged by the earthquake of 1688, was restored by Ferdinando Sanfelice.
The monastery was suppressed in 1867 and transformed into a University clinic in 1882: the internal church was divided in two in height, becoming a University classroom on the lower level and an Anatomy room on the upper level.
The structure is currently used by the University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, which has also established an Anatomy Museum in a wing of the former monastery.