Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center is the company within the Intesa Sanpaolo Group dedicated to cutting-edge innovation, a key competitive factor that helps guide technological solutions, processes, and business models to promote sustainable development from economic, social, and environmental perspectives, in line with the global goals (SDGs) defined by the UN.
To understand the future and steer its projects, it explores future scenarios and trends by identifying key trends and themes with strong transformative potential.
It develops multidisciplinary applied research projects in the fields of Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, and Robotics, both for the Group and for external clients, also thanks to partnerships with important academic institutions and centers of scientific and technological excellence.

On the front of innovative entrepreneurship, corporate growth, and the meeting of supply and demand for innovation, Innovation Center supports startups with evaluation, acceleration, and funding support programs, and accelerates the business transformation of companies according to the criteria of Open Innovation and Circular Economy, for which it is the competence center within the Group.
A distinguishing feature of Innovation Center is its role as an enabler of relationships with other stakeholders — such as companies, startups, incubators, research centers, universities, and national and international bodies — to promote and grow innovation ecosystems, in a synergy that creates value in the territory and develops business and employment.
Innovation Center’s commitment to innovation also extends to Venture Capital, thanks to its subsidiary Neva SGR, which designs and manages dedicated funds, identifying the most promising high-tech startups on the market.