One third of such research results have no Italian companies able to exploit them. The complementary two thirds do have them, according to the members of the research projects, which shows that the misalingnment between public supply and industrial demand does not occur. The indications stemming from the investigation call for an immediate fine-tuning of the matching of research policy with industrial policy and a closer attention to all those initiatives, which may foster the transfer of public research results to the domestic industry.