The MIAT Area Managers therefore dialogue with present and potential clients, to assess new opportunities to develop substances with expiring patents.

The MIAT R&D department draws on its store of experience, information received from the Marketing department and its continuous contacts with research structures in Italian and foreign universities, so as to orient the company's decisions to finance the R&D and scale up of active principles. The department then selects research laboratories with which to establish partnership agreements with a view to undertaking projects for the development of niche products which could be of interest to present and potential clients.