Confindustria Emilia-Romagna Ricerca (CERR) is the company of Confindustria Emilia-Romagna System created to assist industrial associations and companies in the field of research, innovation, technology transfer and digital transformation. CERR supports firms alongside the whole innovation and digital processes developing product, process and/or organization changes, with the aim to increase the company competitiveness. CERR promotes collaboration, dissemination of ideas and the exploitation of knowledge to experiment and find new way to the Open Innovation paradigm, looking to Europe as reference path.

CERR is a Business Innovation and Technology Transfer Center recognized by the Emilia-Romagna regional government, a node of the High Technology Network, acting as a link between companies, researchers and institutions. CERR offers assistance services along the path of innovation: information and awareness, consultancy and mentoring, matchmaking and technological brokerage.