ROMA (ITALPRESS) – Considering market operators, the economy of space has generated a production of 8 billion, employing just over 23 thousand employees, with an added value of 2 billion, equal to 0.1% of GDP. This is what emerges from the data of an Istat and Asi survey. The upstream component, i.e. the activities included in the production chain of the economy of space, employs little more than 14 thousand employees with a production of 4.1 billion and an added value of 1.3 billion. Exports are 2.1 billion, of which 1.8 billion relate to upstream activities. Imports amount to 1.6 billion, of which 1,2 are generated by the production induced. The enterprises operating in the economy of the space have invested in material goods for approximately 0.8 billion, destined mainly to machinery and equipment. Investments in intra-wall research and development amount to 0.6 billion.
In the non-market sector, which includes space-related activities carried out by public institutions (Asi included) and private, the added value is at 353 million, with the use of approximately 2.2 thousand employees. These units invest around 182 million, largely for research and development (162 million). In the manufacturing sector, 76% of the upstream component is concentrated, employing more than 10 thousand employees, while market services dominate the downstream component. Almost 80% of the added value of the space economy, equal to 1,5 billion, is generated by large enterprises (250 employees and more), occupying approximately 17,8 thousand employees. 90% of the added value of the space economy is generated by companies belonging to multinational groups (1.8 billion) employing 20,5 thousand employees. Considering the upstream component, they contribute approximately 1,2 billion added value, occupying just under 12.5 thousand employees.
Companies belonging to multinational groups activate almost all flows with abroad: 1.5 billion imports and little less than 2 billion exports. Considering the complex of the economy of space, the space enterprises show a productivity of about 65% greater than the non-space production units. Upstream companies show an investment propensity (excluding research and development) on average slightly lower than other production units, with an investment rate, calculated as an investment and added value ratio, equal to 16.4% versus 16.9%. On the contrary, upstream companies make a higher propensity for investment in research and development than the rest of the production system: 11.9 versus 7.2% the relationship between investment in research and development added value. The average wages of employees of the productive units operating in the upstream (€41.1 thousand per capita) are 55% higher than those found in other enterprises (€21.4 thousand).
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