Pistoia businesses want to change their pace on international markets. The flection in exports during the first semester of 2013, in contrast to both the regional and national trends, and the lesser vigor of some of the sectors that drive the local economy in areas with high development potential dictate the various economic entities and institutions to find routes to push Pistoia’s products over the border
Taxes, research, energy and credit. These are the keywords of “Destinazione Italia” (Destination Italy), a wide project designed to attract foreign investments announced by the Italian government after the summer, which has now has partly been concretized through a law decree introduced in recent days and with a law design: the declared goal is to give confidence to Italian small and medium enterprises and to improve the Italian business climate to make it more competitive and attractive to foreign capital.
How international are Italian regions? Very much, from the social profile perspective; enough, if one examines the economic component; still too little, when one considers the infrastructural endowment that still sees us in the distance, compared to the major European economies.
The renovation of the Sesta Laboratory (near Siena), a trial station for gas turbine combustors created by ENEL in the Siena area, which will now be converted into an infrastructure to support technological innovations in the oil&gas and power generation [sectors].
Wooded areas, geothermal energy, less combustibles, renewable energy. It is the recipe that, within just a few years, allowed Siena to become Europe’s reference point for sustainability and quality of life
A green light to the tax incentives for people investing in start ups, a measure passed at the end of 2012 by the Monti administration to support development and the affirmation of innovative business ideas.