Innovation

The TIM Group's Open Innovation programme favours business opportunities for improving services, products and processes offered by all the companies in the Group. 

We collaborate with startups and innovative companies of any size and geographical origin in the areas of: Smart Cities, Industry, Retail, Cloud, Network, Cybersecurity and Sustainability.

To participate in the programme, discover our challenges or submit your solution by clicking here. 

Through TIM Ventures, the venture capital company of the TIM Group, we invest in technological start-ups that are in line with our strategy and support them as they grow.

The areas of interest to TIM Ventures are: Network, Cloud, IoT, Cybersecurity, Payments, Education, Sustainability.

Among the main direct investments made to date are: Satispay, Weschool, Askdata, Pedius, Webidoo. TIM Ventures also invests directly through the two funds Northgate and UV T-Growth of which it is the promoter and main investor.

With offices in Turin, Milan, Rome and Catania, our TIM Innovation Labs are business and technology innovation centers where we deal with the design and development of the fixed-line and mobile access network, the evolution of the transport network, the development of services and platforms, and testing of new generation terminals.

They work alongside the User Experience Lab, the TIM competence center on usability and user experience and the ATL (Accredited Test Laboratory), tasked with verifying technologies and services before they are launched on the market.

Open RAN is the Open Radio Access Network technology that allows for the creation of next generation mobile networks, increasing the performance and flexibility of the services offered.
Thanks to which, new standards are being defined that make the development of antennas and radio access network hardware and software components independent, so that different industrial players can offer solutions that are interoperable with those of other operators.

TIM Edge & Cloud Continuum is TIM's project funded by the European Commission as part of the first IPCEI (Important Project of Common European Interest) focusing on next-generation Cloud Infrastructure and Services. The objective of TIM's project is to develop a next-generation Edge Cloud Continuum that will enable interoperability and integration of cloud offerings in Europe, foster the availability of public and private investments, and promote the entry of new companies into the market, to foster a growing ecosystem.