Research, credit, and energy: the moves to attract foreign investments

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.

Internationalization, Tuscany chases the regions of Northern Italy

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.

Geothermal, the Sesta R&D hub moves forward

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].

Start up, the EU’s OK for tax incentives

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.

A renewable energy champion grows in Arezzo

Thirty sites in Italy for the production of solar energy for a total power of 60MW, 14 research permits for the exploitation of geothermal resources, a plant in Emilia Romagna is ready to start producing energy from biomasses.