On the day the electoral campaign for the political elections formally starts, Agi - Agenzia Italia brings together the main protagonists of the Italian world of startups and politics in Rome to underline the urgency of a decisive intervention and ask for innovation and the future at the center of party programs.
Monday 5 February from 11 to 14 in the Temple of Hadrian in Rome (Piazza di Pietra) and live web on Agi.it #StartupDay: put the future in your programs. Opening the meeting is the presentation of SEP Monitor Scaleup Italy created by the international organization Mind the Bridge as part of the Startup Europe Partnership initiative of the European Commission, which aims to support the growth of the best European startups also through large companies and main bags. Download the Startup Europe Partnership Monitor here.
To trace the guidelines for bringing Italy into the future investors, entrepreneurs and experts from the Italian startup and venture capital, gathered in a round table moderated by the director of Agi Riccardo Luna: a National Plan for the Innovation to show the Minister of Economic Development Carlo Calenda and all the political forces the paths to follow in the years to come.
Start-up ecosystem, investments in Italy and in Europe
6 years have passed since in April 2012 the Ministry of Economic Development, welcoming the suggestions of a task force of 12 experts, started the construction of the startup ecosystem in Italy. From the insertion with the Decree 2.0 Growth in the Italian legal system of the definition of new innovative enterprise with high technological value, innovative startup, some stretch of road has been made. But it's not enough.
2017 million were invested in 110,8 in Italian startups, 68 million less than 178 millions of 2016 (-39%). It is the first time in the last three years that there has been a reversal of the growth of investments in new innovative companies. The first data available on venture capital investments is 2012, and with this data the Italy of 2017 has invested exactly the same money that five years ago. The venture capital and start-up financing market remains therefore one of the main problems of the Italian innovation ecosystem. Over 10 thousand Italian startups are not financed. And the one hundred million invested in the last 12 months lead Italy to an abyss away from the main European countries, with France, Germany and the United Kingdom now permanently investing more than two billion euros each year.
"Italy has a dramatic delay compared to other European countries: it is in eleventh place in terms of the number of scaleups and capital raised, with Great Britain, France and Germany practically unattainable - underlines Alberto Onetti, chairman of Mind the Bridge - And the worrying aspect is that, despite the delay, it continues to travel at a slow pace, investing negligible amounts in innovation. This Report, in addition to launching a cry of alarm, intends to understand and explain the reasons for the existing gap between Italy and other countries beyond mere figures, as well as highlight the progress made in the last few years. Although Italy seems to be sailing on sight, there is indeed energy and passion to which we must give wings ”.
"The SEP report shows the enormous delay that characterizes our country as regards the startup ecosystem, despite the great efforts made in recent years, especially by the Ministry of Economic Development - says the director of Agi Riccardo Luna - This table, therefore, wants to be at the same time a moment of hope for our country as well as a meeting from which to come out with clear ideas on what Italy will have to do in the coming years to fill as much as possible the gap that separates us from other countries Europeans. We cannot start again without a decisive strategic contribution of public investments in innovation, fewer announcements and more concrete facts. This innovation is a real national emergency ".
As highlighted by the Agi / CENSIS survey "The Culture of Innovation", told by the Secretary General of CENSIS Giorgio De Rita, to face the problem of youth unemployment Italians, and the younger generation above all, require a shot of leadership and a commitment very concrete direction of public actors with decision-making powers, above all by supporting the most advanced forms of youth entrepreneurship, innovative start-ups (27,9%).
The innovation world brought together by #StartupDay
Present at the meeting: Andrea Ciampalini, Lazio Innova General Manager; Andrea Di Camillo, Managing Partner P101; Antonio Falcone, CEO Principia SGR; Augusto Coppola, Managing Director Acceleration Programs LVenture Group Spa; Carlo Mammola, CEO of the Italian Fund; Aurelio Mezzotero, Managing Director Italian Angels for Growth; Chiara Russo, CEO of Codemotion; Claudio Giuliano, Managing Director Innogest SGR; Cosimo Palmisano, Co-founder Decisyon; Davide Dattoli, CEO of Talent Garden; Diva Tommei, CEO Solenica; Domenico Arcuri, CEO of Invitalia; Fabio Gallia, CEO and General Manager of Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP); Fabio Mondini, Venture Partner Idinvest Partners; Fausto Boni, General Partner 360 Capital Partners; Francesco Nazari, CEO of CharityStars; Franco Petrucci, Founder & CTO Decisyon; Giancarlo Rocchietti, President of the Investors Club; Gianluca Dettori, Executive Chaiman Primomiglio SGR; Giovanni De Caro, Strategic portfolio manager of Esense Ventures; Giovanni De Lisi, CEO Greenrail Srl; Layla Pavone, Chief Innovation Marketing Digital Magics; Leone Pattofatto, Chief Strategy Equity Officer Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP); Luigi Capello, CEO of LVenture Group Spa and Founder Luiss Enlabs; Marco Bicocchi Pichi, President of Italy Startup; Marco Cantamessa, Professor of Innovation Management and Product Development at the Polytechnic of Turin; Marco Gay, CEO Digital Magics; Marco Trombetti, Co-Founder Pi Campus; Massimiliano Magrini, Managing Partner United Ventures; Mario Mariani, Managing Partner The Net Value; Mauro Del Rio, President of Docomo Digital; Paolo Barberis, Founder Nana Bianca; Paolo Cellini, Professor of Digital Economy at Luiss University; Raffaele Mauro, Managing Director Endeavor; Renato Soru, Founder of Tiscali; Riccardo Donadon, CEO & Chairman of H-Farm; Roberto Magnifico, Partner of LVenture Group Spa; Salvo Mizzi, General Partner Principia SGR; Stefano Firpo, Director General of the General Direction for Industrial Policy, Competitiveness and Small and Medium Enterprises of the Ministry of Economic Development; Stefano Scalera, Advisor to the Minister of Economy for the attraction of foreign investments in Italy.
To listen to the proposals of the entrepreneurs: the Honorable Sergio Boccadutri, Coordinator of the Innovation Area of the Democratic Party; the Honorable Laura Castelli, Budget, Treasury and Planning Commission of the 5 Stars Movement; the Honorable Antonio Palmieri, Head of the Internet and New Technologies of Forza Italia; and Armando Siri, Head of Economic and Education Lega Nord.
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Startup Europe Partnership (SEP) - Launched by the European Commission in January 2014 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, SEP is the first pan-European open innovation platform that aims to support the transformation of the best European startups into scaleups also through meetings with large companies and the main international exchanges . By participating in the SEP program, large international companies have access to the best technologies and the best companies in order to initiate partnerships and corporate venture investments. Scaleups have the ability to benefit from qualified sales or strategic opportunities as well as financing options through both venture capital and private placements or IPOs. SEP is led by Mind the Bridge, an international organization with offices in Europe and the United States, with the support of Nesta (foundation for innovation in the United Kingdom). SEP is a Startup Europe initiative. Partners include leading international companies with institutional support from the European Investment Fund / European Investment Bank Group, London Stock Exchange Group, EBAN, European Startup Network, The ScaleUp Institute, Cambridge University, IE Business School and Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society.