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Settore Economia e Lavoro
IRE MEETING INDUSTRIAL REGIONS GROUP
BERGAMO 20-21 November 2003
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THE MILAN METROPOLITAN AREA

• 1,982 KM2 GEOGRAPHIC AREA SURFACE
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• 3,757,609 INHABITANTS (6,5 OF THE ITALIAN
  NATIONAL POPULATION AND 41,6 OF THE LOMBARDY
  REGION POPULATION)
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• 188 MUNICIPALITIES (MILAN WITH 1,3 MILLION OF
  INHABITANTS ANOTHER 6 CITIES WITH MORE THAN
  50,000 INHABITANTS)
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• 350,000 ENTERPRISES, MAINLY SMEs, COVERING ALL
  SECTORS
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• 2,000 NEW BUSINESSES BORN IN THE PROVINCE OF
  MILAN ONLY IN THE MANUFACTURING SECTOR EVERY
  YEAR.
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• 1,500,000 PEOPLE EMPLOYED
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• ALMOST A QUARTER OF THE ITALIAN BUSINESS
  ENTERPRISE RESEARCH IS CARRIED OUT IN THE MILAN
  AREA (LOMBARDY, 34 OF ITALY).
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• MILAN IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ITALIAN AREA FOR THE
  NUMBERS OF ORGANISATIONS THAT PROMOTE INNOVATION
  AND THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
  AND PRODUCTION.

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THE ROLE OF PROVINCE DI MILANO
 

• MAIN FRAMEWORKS IN WHICH THE PROVINCE OF MILAN
  HAS DEVELOPED ITS STRATEGIC ACTIONS ON THE
  ECONOMIC LEVEL OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS
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• THE SUPPORT TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF LOCAL
  ECONOMIES
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• THE PROMOTION OF EMPLOYMENT AND IMPROVEMENT OF
  THE EFFICIENCY OF THE LABOUR MARKET
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• THE STARTING UP OF A POLICY FOR THE CREATION OF
  A LOCAL INNOVATION SYSTEM
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• SUPPORT TO INNOVATION HAS BEEN PROMOTED THROUGH
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• THE STRATEGIC PROGRAMME FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND
  SUPPORT OF INNOVATION IN THE PROVINCE OF MILAN
  1999-2001
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• THE STRATEGIC PROGRAMME FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND
  SUPPORT OF INNOVATION AND THE GROWTH OF
  PRODUCTION ACTIVITIES IN THE PROVINCE OF MILAN
  2002-2004

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THE STRATEGIC PROGRAMME A POLITICAL COMMITMENT

• The Strategic Programme
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• - is the main political instrument of the
  Province of Milan to guide its interventions and
  actions in order to favour innovation and
  competitiveness of the Milan productive system.
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• - is a non-interventionist strategy, open to the
  private resources contribution and based on the
  cooperation among the actors, in which the role
  played by the Province of Milan is as promoter,
  incentivator and coordinator.
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• The Programme has been discussed at the
  Innovation Forum - a place for discussion,
  strategic formulation, where the principal
  actors involved in the innovation system are
  represented.
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• Thanks to their participation, the
  identification of the innovation systems needs
  and the main strategic action lines has been
  possible.
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THE STRATEGIC PROGRAMME FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND
SUPPORT OF INNOVATION IN THE PROVINCE OF MILAN
1999-2001

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• Starting with the 1999-2001 Strategic Programme,
  the MOST IMPORTANT ACTIONS directly promoted
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• - strengthening of the technological and
  technology transfer check-up activities
• - specific projects developed in partnership
  with various institutions (universities, business
  
• innovation centres, agencies, entrepreneurial
  associations)
• - establishment of new facilities and
  territorial agencies
• - interventions in the field of financing for
  innovation and informal financing.
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• On the basis of suggestions made by the
  Strategic Programme and the Innovation Forum, the
  Province of
• Milan also promoted SPECIFIC MEASURES AND
  FINANCING SCHEMES FOR SMEs
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• In 2000-2001 tender to support SME Innovation
  in ICT, e-commerce and quality processes
  (approximately Euro 13 million have been
  made available to Milan SMEs)
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• In 2001-2002, a special tender to foster
  women-based start-ups 
• (approximately Euro 13 million have been made
  available to Milan SMEs)

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THE STRATEGIC PROGRAMME FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND
SUPPORT OF INNOVATION AND THE GROWTH OF THE
PRODUCTION ACTIVITIES IN THE PROVINCE OF
MILAN2002-2004

• Based on the previous experience, the
  2002-2004 Strategic Programme of the
  Province of Milan proposes to continue in
  the creation of a shared intervention
  strategy for the development and support of
  technological innovation through the
  promotion of planning interventions aimed at
  supporting business growth in the area of Milan.
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• Such interventions are structured under
  Operating Axes corresponding to the Provinces
  goals. Each axis contains a summary of Measure
  and Actions that point out intervention
  proposals to be carried out over this three-year
  period.
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• The Axes and Measures of the Strategic Programme
  are summarised in the following diagram

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TWO KEY INTERVENTIONS IN 2002-2003 (1)

• Two important initiatives of the Strategic
  Programme 2002-2004 have been already launched in
  2002-2003 with a total budget of 3.5 Million
  Euro
• - The Measure to support European and
  International patenting processes of SMEs,
  Universities and Research Centres of the
  province of Milan, providing financial
  contribution to cover 50 of patenting process
  costs up to 12.000,00
• Goal to stimulate and increase the patenting
  activity
• Reason IPR protection as competitive advantage
  in domestic and foreign markets
• Total budget 2.155.198,00
• Target groups/beneficiaries Small and
  Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) (affiliated forms
  also included) and private Research Centres,
  working in any economic sector, having legal and
  operative central offices in the province of
  Milan Universities and their Departments,
  University Consortia, and public Research
  Centres, having a location in the province of
  Milan
• Type of support financial contribution for
  multiannual investments and costs of the
  patenting process at European and/or
  international level
• Focus on
• Industrial Invention
• Utility Model
• Ornamental Design or Model
• New Vegetable Varieties
• Topography of Semiconductor Products

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TWO KEY INTERVENTIONS IN 2002-2003 (2)

• The Measure to support the start-up of new
  innovative enterprises and the award of the best
  entrepreneurial ideas, providing financial
  contribution to cover 50 of the start-up process
  of a new entrepreneurial activity up to
  50.000,00
• Goal to favour the start-up and development of
  new enterprises with high innovative content
• Reason the application of new
  technologies/processes/concepts helps the
  generation of new entrepreneurship and new
  employment new opportunities for development and
  growth
• Total budget 1.500.000,00
• Target groups/beneficiaries entrepreneurial
  projects born from university or enterprise
  spin-offs, submitted by young graduates, research
  fellows (doctorate students, contracted
  researchers, etc.), PhDs or specialized
  post-graduates, laboratory technicians,
  professors, and researchers in general
• Type of support financial contribution for
  multiannual investments and expenditures and
  granting awards to the best entrepreneurial ideas
• Focus on
• New entrepreneurial activities
• Any economic sector
• High innovative content in terms of
  product/service, process or management innovation

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A NEW COMMITMENT FOR 2003-2004

• Measure to support Patents and Measure to
  support Start-ups
• second edition launched in October 2003
• Total budget 2.000.000,00
• Promoted by the Chamber of Commerce of the
  Lombardy Region

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CONTACT
GIORGIO MONACI Province of Milan Economic
Activities Sector-Service of Innovation and
Local Policies Phone [phone] E-mail
economialavoro_at_provincia.milano.it