Dornbirn. The Final Conference of the European project BIFOCAlps will be held on September 18th athte University of Applied Sciences of Vorarlberg in Dornbirn, Austria. The tight collaboration between the partners of the project– the Italian – German Chamber of Commerce ITALCAM – has led to multiple results that will shared by the speakers at the conference. The objective of the project – co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund through the Interreg Apline Space programme – is to support the technological development and innovation of PMI production processes in order to ensure their advantageous position in global markets. Thanks to a transnational mapping of local politics of innovative development in the alpine area, each partner contributed towards establishing a series of best practices guidelines required to achieve the so-called “Industry of the Future”. (9colonne)