Telecom Italia Lab is Telecom Italia's 100% owned company with the twin goals of fostering innovation, and pinpointing and developing new business opportunities. Telecom Italia Lab SpA (shortly TILAB) was formed by a merger of the preceding Venture Capital and Innovation business unit with wholly-owned Telecom Italia subsidiary CSELT SpA.

The principal areas of operation for this business unit are:

	R&D and Technology Integration, drawing upon the specific know-how of CSELT, Telecom Italia's Research and Development Center;
	Incubator operations targeted at seizing Internet start-up opportunities (through Future Center, Technology Innovation Centers);
	Venture Capital activities, broadening the existing portfolio through investments in Italy, development of operations in the United States through the set-up of a new fund with selected partners, while seeking fresh opportunities in other nations;
	e-Learning, fostering ICT professional training and development within and external to the Group.

Telecom Italia Lab's broad portfolio spans the following services: consulting, offering advanced specialization in high-growth business areas (i.e. the Internet and Wireless); technology support, through the CSELT Research and Development Center; marketing support, drawing upon technical innovation services supplied by the Future Center for small and medium businesses, and services from Consumer LAB; roll out support, based upon Technology Innovation Centers (local-level centers in support of research and entrepreneurialism); and go-to-Market support, leveraging the Telecom Italia Group's experience and worldwide reach.  TILAB’s corporate venture capital and incubation activities address all phases of the development of new companies; by making investments and offering business and technological consulting, TILAB creates industrial synergies both with its internal R&D and with Telecom Italia Group businesses.

TILAB main interests in the network are in usability and acceptability of services, with particular attention to Internet and mobile services.