From today, the network of Chambers of Commerce offers a free service dedicated to young people who want to create a new business. The novelty envisages a targeted and integrated offer of orientation, training, assistance, accompaniment and support expressly aimed at responding to the various needs of the start-up and post-start-up, also promoting access to credit and microcredit instruments or national and regional public incentives, to enhance the employment opportunities linked to independent work.
“The Chambers of Commerce's Network of Help Desks to support youth self-entrepreneurship – underlines the president of Unioncamere, Ferruccio Dardanello – will welcome young people who intend to open a new business, guaranteeing them targeted specialist courses. In our structures, a model of service and common intervention is made available free of charge, based on the adoption of homogeneous standards, according to territorial declinations and articulations differentiated on the basis of local specificities (in terms of opportunities, collaborations, specializations, available resources, actors and networks). It is obviously a concrete and effective contribution that Unioncamere and the Italian Chambers of Commerce are ready to make available for the relaunch of youth employment”.
Just under 653 enterprises, over 130 registrations even in a 2013 of crisis, a growth rate of 10,48% (equal to approximately 71 youth enterprises more than in 2012) and an incidence on the total production system that is close to '11%. This is the photograph of the youthful enterprise taken by the Unioncamere Observatory, from which emerges a universe in great movement from the North to the South of the country. The desire to do business among young people is numerically higher in some of the regions with a high rate of entrepreneurship (over 9 more created in 2013 in Lombardy, Lazio and Campania), but it takes on characteristics of intense dynamism even in smaller regions, such as Trentino Alto Adige and Friuli Venezia Giulia, which in the ranking for growth rate are preceded only by Lazio (where under 35 companies grow by as much as 14,45% in 2013 compared to 2012) and – starting from very small numbers – from the Aosta Valley.
However, it is the southern regions where the company seems to represent an alternative to dependent work for those under 35 years of age. In Calabria, Campania and Sicily, in fact, the patrol of young entrepreneurs exceeds or is close to 15% of the total activities in the area, in Puglia it reaches 13%, in Molise and Basilicata it is almost 12%. On the opposite front, Friuli Venezia Giulia and Trentino Alto Adige, where the youth component makes up about 8% of the total.
Although 73% of youth enterprises have the simplest legal form of sole proprietorship, the more structured joint-stock companies appear to be growing significantly: the balance between registrations and terminations in 18 for this legal form exceeds 2013 units, with a growth rate almost 20%.
At the end of 2013, trade, construction and accommodation and catering activities concentrated the largest number of businesses managed by young entrepreneurs, but, in terms of percentage incidence on the total number of businesses, business leaders under 35 accounted for almost 15% of registered businesses in Other services, the sector to which the activities of repairing personal goods and services for the person belong. In addition to the conspicuous incidence also in the accommodation and catering sector, youth businesses also appear to be more consistent in percentage terms in rental, travel agencies and business support services and in financial and insurance activities.
