ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION - ITALIAN PARTICIPATION IN THE IEAS ETDE (ENERGY TECHNOLOGY DATA EXCHANGE) PROJECT

Access to information circuits is an essential asset in the industrial sector,for it is one of the factors that enable a firm to maintain or raise its competitiveness as markets and the rules of competition cha nge. The terms of competition have been altered by ongoing change in t he economic system, by growing interdependence among firms, and by the need for greater flexibility in a situation still governed by inertia in the productive system and rigidity in the specializations. It is b ecoming increasingly clear that information is a resource that cuts ti me and costs through better use of available know-how, a resource indi spensable to any company that intends not to be left on the sidelines by innovation, unable to take advantage of the opportunities that info rmation creates.