Forest City New York today announced that Ferrero International S.A., the Italian confectionary group and one of the world’s largest manufacturers of chocolates, will take space at The Bridge at Cornell Tech. The Bridge is a first-of-its-kind building that will house an extraordinary mix of cutting-edge companies working alongside groundbreaking Cornell Tech academic teams: from recent Cornell Tech graduates striving to commercialize a new idea, to start-ups on the verge of explosive growth, and established companies developing leading-edge technologies and products.

At The Bridge,Ferrero’s Open Innovation Science divisionwill drive discovery, evaluation and integration plans of relevant external science, technology and entrepreneurial innovations. Their strategic approach will be based on the identification of opportunity areas at the intersection of technology, macrotrends, and Ferrero business priorities.