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  Olivetti: over 100 years of culture and innovation Since the first Italian factory of typewriters, created in Ivrea by  Camillo Olivetti , more than 100 years have passed. Piedmont’s city  Ivrea  even now remains symbol of the project of a worldwide popular enterprise. On occasion of the firm’s centenary, in  2008  the  Fondazione Adriano Olivetti  opened a new operating seat in Ivrea, at Adriano Olivetti’s house, with the aim of converging  culture ,  knowledge  and  innovation  towards the development of business, higher education and research institutions in Piedmont. As the future of local communities depends on their ability to exploit the present knowledge, Fondazione Adriano Olivetti started in 2008 a multi-year programme for the development of the  Knowledge Society  (so called in the Lisbon Agenda). Acting locally with a European and global perspective, the Foundation launched with this programme two lines of activities which are still running: the first aims to  enhance the

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