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An insight into the innovative start-up landscape of Trentino: Is it time for the “Start-up Valley” to scale up?

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No 2020/09, OECD Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) Papers from OECD Publishing

Abstract: This paper offers an in-depth analysis of the characteristics of innovative start-up firms in Trentino, a high-income mountainous area in the North East of Italy. This work is part of a series of thematic papers on regional start-up landscapes in Italy, produced by the OECD Trento Centre for Local Development. Following the 2018 OECD Evaluation of the Italian Start-up Act, which embraced a national perspective, it represents a first attempt to analyse the impact of this policy at the local level. Among Italian regions, Trentino boasts the highest density of registered innovative start-ups over all young firms established locally. However, innovative start-ups spread unevenly throughout this territory, concentrating in urban areas. Female and young founders are less prevalent than in Italy at large. Firm dynamism, in particular high-growth and exit trends, the uptake of emerging technologies among local start-ups as well as their propensity to use national incentives are other key areas of this work, which concludes with a set of evidence-based recommendations for policy makers.

Keywords: artificial intelligence; entrepreneurship; firm dynamism; innovation; local development; policy adoption; start-up (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D22 L26 M13 O38 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-11-17
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cse, nep-ent, nep-ino, nep-sbm and nep-ure
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