Happy New Year!

Celebrating the new year in with a special bottle of RichardLucien champagne in loving memory of a special unique person, Riccardo Procaccini, creator of the awarded brand, whom passed away a few days ago.

Riccardo and I met only a few times, we met a little over a year ago for the first time, yet we both felt to have a special inner connection driven by the ‘Riccardino’ name and mindset spirit we shared, we will honour his legacy beginning in 2022!

Cafe’ Elba’s wings spread even further: a unique resort in India

Synergy Pathways is all about generating opportunities and growth in the many international sectors we operate. Café Elba is our very own unique project focusing in the resort field “Indian food, Italian flair” is the mantra that has been driving the project growth since it begun in February 2020: enduring and evolving even through the many challenges and barriers set by the pandemic.

Nowadays the project goes one step further with five new unique bungalows characterised by the sense of comfort, hospitality and unique positive atmosphere that has been distinguishing Cafe’ Elba since the very beginning. Cafe’ Elba is more than ever a unique place in Alibag to refresh and reset our busy lives in natural enjoyable ways. A place for friends and families. A place where to free up and stimulate creative mindsets within a hub of knowledge and contacts set to develop far reaching opportunities.

We are especially proud of this project that in many ways is touching for the better many lives.

At this link the full presentation of the AC rooms.

Synergy Pathways begins TS2 Engineering internationalization project towards India

Riccardo has visited TS2 Engineering headquarters in Orvieto meeting the founders, the management team and visiting overall operations. The project entails a market feasibility study relevant to several areas of development in India for TS2 Engineering products and services.
Targeted business development actions will follow the feasibility study. The project will benefit from the network of high level widespread connections that Synergy Pathways has been developing throughout the years in the industrial, telecommunication, defence and biomedical fields throughout India. 

MindUP – Enhancement Psychology: Integrated Mental Training in motorsport focused on performance and driven by data for the enhancement of individual skills

MindUP – Enhancement Psychology is a mental training project developed and promoted by Synergy Pathways, member of Rpm Motorsport Network. We collect biometric data while the performance is in progress in order to develop an evaluation of the driver to identify the improvement areas to be optimized and the critical areas to be strengthen. The improvement program provides a personalized approach for the driver in order to enhance, maintain over time en constantly improve performance; at the same time we pay particular attention to preserving the psychophysical well-being of the athlete.

We recently implemented our Enhancement Psychology program for gentlemen drivers. We integrated the MindUP protocol with the advanced and innovative biometric and telemetry data detection software developed and provided by another member of RPM: Redway Technologies & Communication in their professional simulation center in Padua as shown in the pictures.

It was a day of intense and fun training that led all participants to concretely identify and begin to act on the fundamental factors for improving their performance: the Basic Functioning of the athlete personality.

This is an example of unique innovative projects that can be developed by the integration of unique competencies and experiences present in RPM Motorsport Network.

Conference. E-Valley: the transition to electric in the land of motors

Invited by Reinova we have participated to a conference held in Rimini (Italy) relevant to the current work-in-progress within the traditional Italian Motor Valley, deeply rooted land of motors, towards a new sustainable mobility.

It has been enlightening to realize in how many ways institutions, companies, universities and professionals are cooperating in order to channel the traditional creativity and competencies towards the new era characterized by change, challenges and opportunities shaping a sustainable economic and social growth driven by synergies.

Quite timely and intriguing a book (in Italian) written and presented by Massimo Degli Espositi by the title “E-Valley: volti e storie della terra dei motori” (E-Valley: portraits and narratives from the land of motors) featuring several companies case studies pointing out the dynamics and innovation originating from a land traditionally rich in creativity and competencies to technical challenges.

As Synergy Pathways we are proud to contribute to the fulfilling the potential of these rising opportunities in many ways: focusing on generating and facilitating synergies among companies, institutions and universities  at the national and international level, facilitating and promoting RPM Motorsport network business development activities and ensuring innovative ways that enable the full consistent expression of talent through our program MindUp- Enhancement Psychology.

MindUP at the Historic Minardi Day 2021

Riccardo was present at the Minardi Day 2021 edition. The MindUP method was born in the world of motorsport: Lorenzo Baldassarri (MindUP co-founder with Riccardo) developed the protocol by working with one of the current most highly rated drivers in Formula 1 during his formative karting years.The motorsport roots give substance and practicality to the MindUP method: data driven, performance focused.

MindUP in search of young karting talents

MindUp methodlogy has been shaped, tested and refined in the Motorsport field, karting in particular. We have ensured the expression of top talent by liberating energies, focus and emotions to positively and consistently boost it.
 
Our data driven method generates a solid parallel with the data driven learning and improvement that is by now is integral part of driver training beginning with the early stages of an unfolding career.
 
For this reason Lorenzo and Riccardo have visited the South Garda Karting track in Lonato to meet very young drivers talents to concretely support a methodical, data driven, approach to an integrated way to manage and develop mental trainng for high level consistent performance.

INDIA: growth opportunities for Italian SMEs

Today Riccardo has  participated to this conference with a presentation focusing on an overall overview of the Indian market opportunities for Italian SMEs. The conference has been broadcasted live in streaming and it is available at this link.

The presentation contents are available at this link and focus on the following topics:

Part 1: Why India: an overall view

Part 2: Some key sectors to focus on for SMEs

Part 3: Advantages of doing business in India

Part 4: Challenges of doing business in India

Part 5: The Italian and Indian cultural synergy

Part 6: Taking care of the crucial ‘last mile’ factor

We thank the organisers, the Camera di Commercio Italo Orientale and the conference introduction of Puglia Region Internationalization Area along with the Indian Chamber of Commerce in Italy.

We also thank our colleague Daniele Ferretti from Ferretti Firm for integrating our presentation through a specific focus on forms of Direct Investment in India for Business Development.

We look forward to providing concrete support to SMEs from the Puglia region and from all over Italy. Together we can identify opportunities for growth in India and ensure an effective operational and strategic management of the crucial ‘last mile’ that represents the factor in turning opportunity in lasting mid to long term growth.

Dr. Tim Angus and Riccardo Paterni on their activity in Synergy Pathways relevant to Motorsport and Motorsport Technology Transfer Business Development

Tim and Riccardo in this brief video conversation  talk about the roots and developments of their common professional path in Synergy Pathways on the topic of business development in Motorsport and Motorsport Technology Transfer during the last five years.

All events and related publications are available at the following links:

2016- Riccardo invites Tim to present the Business Model of Motorsport at the University of Pisa International MBA 

2016- Presentation regarding Motorsport and Motorsport Technology Transfer cases at Regents’ University in London 

2019- RPM Network is launched in Rome  

2020- Meetings at Autosport International, the conference and B2B event on Motorsport and Motorsport Technology Transfer in the making 

2021- Motorsport Next – Industry Innovation and Technology Transfer Global Forum becomes reality 

Additional references:

2007- Book: MOTORSPORT GOING GLOBAL 

2013- Book INNOVAZIONE A TUTTO GAS! (Full throttle Innovation)

2021- Academic article: Motorsport Valley revisited: cluster evolution, strategic cluster coupling and resilience