Aten is to the world

Internationalization for autonomous driving system

Market research

Project Description

Info Solution has carried out and will carry out research activities, as a member of the ATEN IS network, in California Ohio (USA), Ontario and Quebec (Canada). We collaborated with UCLA Anderson School of Management (University of California Los Angeles) in California. A team of six Executive MBA experts, assisted by a school advisor, prepared a primary and a secondary market research with at least 150 interviews and draw up, a business plan for the introduction of the AGV products on the US market. There has been also a follow up of the activity previously carried out with Aten IS in 2016-17, in the states of Ohio USA and Quebec Canada, where the AGV brand was also be involved.

ATEN IS (Advanced TEchnology Network) is a network of 28 members, companies and research institutes, with a total turnover of over 150 million.

The network’s business sectors are focused on the aerospace, defense and security markets, from which applications for territorial monitoring, Smart Cities, with technologies ranging from satellite navigation to the use of microwave technologies for communications or remote sensing derive. The network is based in the Tiburtine techno-pole in Rome and has as its objectives the integration of the products and technologies of its members and their promotion on the national and international territory. Thanks to ATEN IS, Info Solution was able to co-finance the first activities in North America between 2016 and 2017, and a second one in North America as a follow-up to the first. Other markets touched and reached by the network are South America, India, the Emirates, China and Eastern Europe.

Funding programme

“Contributions to support the internationalization processes of Lazio’s SMEs” POR FESR LAZIO 2014-2020

Targets
1.PCT patent protection of automatic piloting method, LLU-PILOT Product

2. Development of business plans for the introduction of the LLU – Pilot product in foreign markets, by consulting a panel of experts from UCLA Anderson Business School

3.Participation in the “Olè Salamanca” Startup Fair, and in the Incoming Rome event

4. Commercial actions in the Canadian and US markets

Project Dates
Beginning 01 February 2018 – End 05 October 2019

Patership