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3.3 exchanges with the fresh and young universe
The green and digital of start-ups, an inexhaustible mine of creativity,
revolution originality and new perspectives.

The guidelines which set the direction of
Innovation in Ratti consists of various innovation policy in Ratti and the design of
organisational actors and various types of the business may be summed up in the words
intervention. Stylistic innovation – of design, green and digital, green transition and digital
of the product – incremental innovation, transition. This means a sustainable and circular
also followed by the line for “inter-work” with company in terms of materials, manufacturing,
suppliers, technological innovation, innovation services, and the perennial tension between
generated by research and development innovation and new compliance, alert to the
projects. potential offered by the new frontier of circular
textiles. It also means a business which offers
Innovation is generated as much in projects digital relationship models to its customers and
developed within the company as in partnership which transforms manufacturing from automated
with businesses, universities and research to digital and intelligent, integrating IT and
centres. In such an environment constant machinery, developing algorithms, using new
monitoring is essential, as are relationships and tools and technology, on the lookout for new
business models.
As far as associative forms of innovation are
concerned, Ratti is a member of the Lombardy
THE MAIN POLICY OF THE RATTI GROUP Region clusters Associazione Fabbrica
FOR SAFEGUARDING CONSUMERS IS Intelligente Lombardia (Lombardy Association of
THE GUARANTEE THAT ALL PRODUCTS Intelligent Factories) and Chimica Verde (Green
COMPLY WITH THE REGULATIONS Chemicals). Ratti is on the Board of the ETP, the
GOVERNING THE ENVIRONMENT AND European Technology Platform of Euratex, the
CHEMICAL COMPLIANCE.
“Confederazione Europea delle Aziende del
Tessile e dell’Abbigliamento” (the European

Antonio Ratti: a patron with a vision

Beauty provides an infinite source of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New study and conservation of fabrics. November
creative stimuli that recount a freedom York, Palazzo Grassi in Venice, Palazzo Reale 1998 saw the opening of the Museo Tessile
of expression that avoids banality and and the Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea (textile museum) of the Antonio Ratti
overcomes preconceptions. (pavilion of contemporary art) in Milan. Foundation – subsequently renamed Museo
An archive of images, designs and colours Blessed with a heightened proclivity for Studio del Tessuto. This museum houses
that are values infused in the DNA of the innovation and research not only related to the collection of antique fabrics that he
company and its founder. industry, in 1985 Antonio Ratti created, in collected with passion and foresight his
Como, the Foundation bearing his name. The entire life. The collection is now looked
Nominated Cavaliere del Lavoro (knight) foundation is fully dedicated to cultural and after, with the same passion, by his daughter
in 1972 and appointed Honorary Trustee historical research in the world of textiles Annie Ratti.
of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New (a collection of antique fabrics, themed
York, Antonio Ratti was one of the greatest exhibitions and forum), and to the promotion
exemplars of Italian entrepreneurship, of the most talented visual artists. On the
in addition to being one of the most back of this initiative Antonio Ratti decided,
enlightened patrons, both nationally and in 1995, to finance, at the Metropolitan
internationally. His search for beauty went Museum of Art in New York, a centre set
beyond his passion for silk, the fulcrum up to conserve, restore and catalogue the
of his business activities, to embrace the textile collections owned by the museum.
world of art in all its manifestations, and And so the Antonio Ratti Textile Center was
his name was linked with some of the most established – it is, today, one of the most
prestigious cultural institutions, including significant centres open to the public inside
the Guggenheim, the Museum of Modern an art gallery. It is perfectly equipped for the

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