An insight into the innovative start-up landscape of Friuli-Venezia Giulia
A tale of two sub-regions?
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.
Published on November 17, 2020
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