Italy’s narrow lane in the US S&T strategy

Italy can carve out a role in select tech domains — AI/robotics, biotech and quantum — but only as part of a unified European strategy, argues Marco Gilli, president of Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo, in an analysis of Washington's new National Security Science & Technology Strategy. Gilli warns that the EU is largely absent from the US framework and that Italy's own limits — chiefly weak capital markets and venture funding — mirror Europe's broader competitiveness gap.