An insight into the innovative start-up landscape of Friuli-Venezia Giulia: A tale of two sub-regions?

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No 2020/08, 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 Friuli-Venezia Giulia, an autonomous region situated at the extreme North East of the Italian territory, bordering with Austria and Slovenia. This work is part of a series of thematic papers on sub-national 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. Friuli-Venezia Giulia hosts a polycentric, mainly urban start-up landscape, with a low prevalence of female and young founders. Its historical sub-regions of Friuli and Venezia Giulia present remarkable differences under several perspectives, including the industrial composition of their start-ups, the spread of emerging technologies among them and their propensity to use national incentives. Firm dynamism, notably high-growth and exit trends, constitutes another major focus of this work, which concludes with a set of evidence-based recommendations for policy-makers.

Keywords: artificial intelligence; entrepreneurship; firm growth; innovation; local development; multi-level governance; 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
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