A company needs to innovate as a developement strategy to became a leader. In Italy, the 1,800 potential Innovative SME located in Lombardy will bring more business for them, their clients and their supplier. As a consequence, this will benefit the whole community.
This was one of the main topics of “Focusing On Enterprises: to recover beyond expectations”, one of the road show meetings to raise awareness and inform local businesses about the opportunities offered to those who invest in innovation held in Cremona.
A round table titled “Are you an Innovative SME? Opportunities and advantages” featured Gianluca Battini, HT Soultions CEO. Ht Solutions (www.htsfurnaces.com) is a Vailate, Cremona based Company dealing with the construction of vacuum and high vacuum furnaces for heat treatment and metal surface. This meeting was important, as a stop of the italian road show, as it displayed all the news of the Investment Compact: simplifications and advantages from innovative startups now applies to SME too, with a special mention on the Business Register.
After this meeting, seems we are in a new era for SMEs. It is now crucial for every SME to be a hub, a netowrk node for fast innovation, using all the innovative tools given by the legal regulations of the new SME italian laws collected by the Italian Ministry Of Economic Development available (in italian language) on their official website (www.sviluppoeconomico.gov.it/index.php/it/impresa/piccole-e-medie-imprese/pmi-innovative)
The Intesa Sanpaolo bank is on board, in partnership with Piccola Industria Confindustria, to promote and spread knowledge on Tech-Marketplace, a business matching platform connecting innovative businesses and SMEs with a serach engine developed to nutrure new contacts and opportunities between question and answers on techology innovation. Moreover, there is a financial program for all the companies entitled to benefit from the 2016 Stability Law ofr investment in new tangible assets.
By the way, Intesa Sanpaolo since the first partnership started in 2009 and until March 3rd 2016, has made available more than 45 billions Euro.
