Sangiovanni Vincentelli's initials are SV like Silicon Valley - massimo carraro

SVincentelli: there's a pervasive situation of people working in many crossed fields - massimo carraro

SVincentelli: in Italy there's a "parcellizzazione della conoscenza" absolutely not interdisciplinary, they cut knowledge very finely... the future is about people that know many things and do many things - massimo carraro

SVoncentelli: the name of the game in Italian instruction is control, in order to keep power for those who have it - massimo carraro

SVincentelli: the only thing we can do as professors is NOT KILL grat minds, not waste them - massimo carraro

Severgnini: what did Italian institutions do to help Italians in silicon valley? - massimo carraro

SVincentelli: the only reason I'm in USA is that my professor at Politecnico kicked me and said "go there and learn!" - massimo carraro

SVincentelli: sometimes we tend to be overnegative, but times are difficult, that's true - massimo carraro

Severgnini: Alberto you are the star but I'm the boss: shorter answers please! - massimo carraro

SVincentelli: I'm trying to inject in Italian Venture Capitals US spirit, which is money helps companies grow - massimo carraro

SVincentelli: VC in US for 90% were entrepreneurs, not financial guys, they know about companies - massimo carraro

SVincentelli: best VC is from people who help your company grow, not financial attitude - massimo carraro

Severgnini: what do ypu look for in a project? - massimo carraro

SVincentelli: 1: passion (it is a lot of pain to create a company), 2: quality of people, 3: capability of work in a team - about the idea: 1: how big/defensible is the field - massimo carraro

Severgnini: Finland has decided that internet is like air - Italians have just decided to cut broadband - what is the right approach? - massimo carraro

SVincentelli: well, (laugh) ok, in Finland is easy because it's small... in the US broadband is not that big... the real revolution would be broadband to everybody for free - massimo carraro

Question: Y combinator: what do you think about it? - massimo carraro

SVincentelli: don't know much about it.. sorry - massimo carraro

SVincentelli: for a VC networking is fundumental, for instance Yahoo was forced to form a company by a VC, so that's network - massimo carraro

Marinucci: about the human touch... how do you teach to be always available like you always are? - massimo carraro

SVincentelli: by example, that's the only way - massimo carraro

more than 50% VC money is clean tech now, then energy, then health - massimo carraro

IN US there are too few IPOs - massimo carraro

that's the prime incentive of economy - massimo carraro

Severgnini: my augurio personale is that that the serendipity in the room will go far - massimo carraro