Abstract
The challenge that Italy is facing in the last years is how to foster the development of its innovative industrial ecosystem in order to become a point of reference within the main innovation global players. The goal is exciting and day after day an increasing number of actors in Italy is actively working in creating the environmental conditions necessary to help the technological rebirth of our Country starting right from innovative start-ups. In this scenario a key role is played by Italia Start-up, the Italian Start-up Association founded in 2012. Specifically, the Association represents all the actors of the italian start-up ecosystem and actively promotes the networking among its members that, scattered throughout the peninsula, are the driving force for technological breakthrough of our Country.
Highlights
With the main goal to foster the Italian technological development and the youth employment, the Italian Government issued a few years ago the De’Further urgent measures for Italy’s economic growth’, known as ‘Growth Decree 2.0’)
The Decree represents an absolute novelty in the Italian legislation, because for the first time the definition of a new innovative enterprise - the ‘innovative start-up’ – was formally introduced: “An innovative start-up is a company with shared capital, or a cooperative, whose capital shares are neither listed on a regulated market nor on a multilateral negotiation system” (DL 18 ottobre 2012, n. 179)
The main actions/efforts of the Association are directed to: − spread the passion of doing business and promote the entrepreneurial culture in order to boost the competitiveness of the whole Italian innovation ecosystem; − support those individuals who are starting or aim at initiating an entreprenuerial activity; − involve those actors who could or would invest in start-up, first of all the mature companies; − enhance the Italian innovative start-ups, by bringing them closer to the consolidated Italian industry, as well as by introducing them to international and domestic investors; − promote youth employment
Summary
With the main goal to foster the Italian technological development and the youth employment, the Italian Government issued a few years ago the De’Further urgent measures for Italy’s economic growth’, known as ‘Growth Decree 2.0’). The Italian industrial ecosystem is mainly characterized by small and medium enterprises (SME) and the lack of large corporations, and/or foreign multinational companies/global players willing to invest a large amount of money in innovative new business idea in our Country, hinders the abovementioned breakthrough that our economy needs to ‘re-start’ its growth. Despite these adverse conditions, the Italian innovation ecosystem is actively dealing with these challenges/obstacles and does not give up. It is related to the R&D management, that along with an adequate training at all corporate levels, is to be considered as one of the most important keystone for the technological rebirth of our economy
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