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Regional Law 4/2006
In January of 2006, the Regional Council of Piemonte approved – unanimously – Law 4 which instituted the “Regional System for Research and Innovation”. Piemonte is among the first regions in Italy to issue a law on research. The aim of the law is to organize, promote, and coordinate the regional system of research within the European Research Area. The law pursues the following objectives: the promotion of research and innovation; the consolidation of the research system; the systematic evaluation of the effects.

Research Centres and Banking Foundations
Besides academic research centers, there are numerous public, private, and mixed non-academic research centers and various banking and research foundations.

Public research centres include:
CNR: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (National Council of Research)
Centro Ricerche ENEA di Saluggia (Saluggia Research Centre)
INFN: Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (National Institute of Nuclear Physics)
INRIM: Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (National Institute of Metrology Research)
IRCC: Istituto per la Ricerca sul Cancro (Institute for Cancer Research)
IUSE: Istituto Universitario Studi Europei (University Institute of European Studies)
Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino (Torino Astronomic Observatory)
CRIT: Centro Ricerche e Innovazione Tecnologica RAI (RAI Technological Research and Innovation Centre)
CRA: Consiglio per la ricerca e la sperimentazione in agricoltura (Council for Research and Experimentation in Agriculture)

Private Research Centres include:
CRF: Centro Ricerche Fiat (Fiat Research Centre)
Centro di ricerca e sviluppo Motorola (Motorola Research and Development Centre)
RTM
Consorzio Proplast

Mixed research centres (public/private) include:
CSP: Centro di Eccellenza per la Ricerca, Sviluppo e Sperimentazione di Tecnologie Avanzate Informatiche e Telematiche (Centre for Excellence in Research, Development, and Experimentation of Advanced Computer and Telecommunication Technologies)
ICER: International Centre for Economic Research
SITI: Istituto Superiore sui Sistemi Territoriali per l’Innovazione (Higher Institute on Territorial Systems for Innovation)
ISMB: Istituto Superiore Mario Boella (Mario Boella Higher Institute)
CreSO: Consorzio di ricerca, sperimentazione e divulgazione per l’ortofrutticoltura piemontese (Research, Experimentation, and Information Consortium for Piemonte Market Gardening)
Centro Sperimentale Vitivinicolo Regionale “Tenuta Cannona” (“Tenuta Cannona” Regional Experimental Wine-Growing and Wine-Producing Centre)
CRAB: Centro di Riferimento per l’agricoltura biologica (Reference Centre for Biological Farming)