Between April and June, new businesses opened by young people under 35 averaged 300 per day (almost 32 in all), equal to a third of all new business openings in the quarter. Net of the closures recorded in the same period (about 11 thousand), the army of youth businesses in the second quarter of the year was therefore enriched by over 20 thousand units, coming to touch the value of 600 thousand companies. This is what emerges from Movimprese, the quarterly survey conducted by Unioncamere-Infocamere on the basis of the Business Register of the Chambers of Commerce.
In absolute terms, the contribution that young people gave to the growth of the business base between April and June was 54% (this is the amount of businesses under 35 compared to the overall quarterly balance). A contribution that appears even more significant if one looks at its intensity: the quarterly growth rate of young entrepreneurs, in fact, scored +3,6% compared to 0.6% for the whole of enterprises.
That the company's response to looking for a job is one of the main reasons for this growth is confirmed by the prevalence of micro-initiatives (in 76% of cases, new youth businesses are born in the form of sole proprietorship) and by the share with based in the South: the new initiatives of young southerners in fact represent 40,6% of the total of new businesses in that area of the country, with peaks above or close to this share in Calabria, Campania and Sicily.
A primacy, that of the entrepreneurship of young people in the South, which is confirmed if we observe the incidence of new youth businesses on the population of people under 35 residing in the Italian regions (in Campania the ratio for every 1000 young residents is born 3,2, XNUMX businesses).
In absolute value, the sectors in which young people have chosen to focus were trade (over 6.500 more companies in the quarter), accommodation and restaurant services (+2.800) and construction (+2.300). In percentage terms, the growth of "under 35" companies was decisive for the quarterly balance of transport (the young companies alone in fact explain over 100% of the balance of the sector which, without them, would have closed with a negative balance), in construction (78% the weight of young companies on the total balance) and manufacturing activities (in which 3 out of 4 of the most companies surveyed in the quarter are under 35 years of age).
