The park is also home to an agri-food research centre (Centro Ricerche e Studi Agroalimentari, Cersa). In Lombardy, science parks’ co-ordinating function needs also to be enhanced. This can usually be achieved optimally through a coherent institutional approach (see an example in Box 3.12). The situation in this region is similar to Lombardy. Although there is a strong internationalised backbone to the region’s manufacturing economy, there are many underperforming and non-innovative small and medium-sized enterprises.