The economy of the Southern Italy it is advancing at a decisive pace, especially as regards telecommunications. This is stated by the study ofInstitute for Competitiveness, I-Com, “The economy of the Italian regions and the relationship between local administrations and businesses”, launched today in Rome on the occasion of the last stage of the second edition of ORTI, the Observatory on land-business relations.
According to the study, today the Southern Regions excel due to the presence of industrial districts, with an increase in exports of 2016% in 8,3, and are particularly dynamic in the sectors of telecommunications, transport and energy.
In fact, to describe the degree of competitiveness of the Italian regions, I-Com has developed a synthetic index which takes into consideration some variables relating to the infrastructural endowment. From this measurement criterion, the good performance of Campania, Puglia and Sicily can be seen, especially in the ultra-broadband sector.
On the ultra-broadband, in particular, the performance of Campania stands out, which is placed in second place in the national ranking, after Lombardy, thanks also to an excellent capillarity of the electricity distribution network.
"Our index results in quantitative data which naturally should be read together with that of quality", declared Stefano da Empoli, president of I-Com, who edited the report together with Gianluca Sgueo, director of the I-Com Institutions Area. “However, the improvement of the networks of some Southern Regions, which it represents, is undeniable a development opportunity not to waste. And it must no longer give excuses to regional and local administrations that continue to offer citizens and businesses an all too often penalizing relationship between the quality and cost of services".
It is tangible proof of this tax burden for industries which in the South is on average higher than in the North. The highest IRAP rate is recorded in Campania (4,97%), Sicily, Puglia and Calabria (4,82%), while the ordinary rate is applied in the Northern Regions (3,90%).
Finally, the leadership of the North emerges from the report of the Institute for Competitiveness as regards the distribution of innovative start-ups, with over 55% of the total (but it is the Marches that lead the ranking for number of start-ups per capita, ahead, respectively, of Trentino Alto Adige, Emilia Romagna, Lombardy, Friuli Venezia Giulia and Abruzzo), and the presence of companies with foreign participation.
La Lombardia in fact, it hosts 4.431 multinationals, 5,5% of the total industries of the Region. According to I-Com, businesses in Lombardy alone could potentially employ 4,4% of the Italian unemployed, followed by those in Veneto (2,4%).
The study then examines 16 concrete cases in which the relationship between the local PA and businesses has proved to be particularly virtuous, revealing how it is possible to build the country's success by overcoming distrust and inaction. I-Com called these cases #ItaliaSì. To overcome the impasse blocking the country, the Institute for Competitiveness has proposed a "Manifesto of good relations between territories and businesses", a decalogue capable of identifying the cardinal points of a new virtuous relationship between industries and territories to contribute to general interest of Italy.
A relationship, the one between industries and territory, which could change in the light of the possibility constitutional reform, as in the case of the revision of Title V, which regulates the relations between the State and territorial autonomies. Manifesto in hand, the ORTI report shows the possible impacts of the reform, in some cases substantial, on the interactions between companies and local institutions.
