ROMA (ITALPRESS) – “According to the main Ocse aggregates on direct foreign investments, in 2024 the flows reached 24,7 billion dollars, placing Italy among the first Countries of the G7, to a historical record for greenfield investment announcements in our country“. But in addition to attracting investors, we also manage “something equally important, loyalty them and grow them. The companies that choose Italy reinvest and expand constantly” thanks to its industrial ecosystem. Thus Valentino Valentini, Deputy Minister of Enterprise and Made in Italy, taking part in the annual meeting of the OECD Council at ministerial level in Paris.
“Investment flows are a barometer of credibility: investors allocate capitals where they find stability, predictability and a government really committed to ensuring that investments are successful,” Valentini added, explaining what are the guidelines on which Italy moves. First, “it focuses on investors who develop industrial excellence, contribute to the dual green and digital transition and integration into global value chains in high-intensity knowledge sectors.”.
“The country has implemented the OECD’s framework for investment in four concrete dimensions: institutional support; access to funding for research and development, startups and high-tech SMEs; regulatory simplification; and linking with local ecosystems, combining investors, SMEs and research centres,” Valentini explained. Starting from these bases, the goal, in a “continuous improvement”, is to offer “stable rules, clear timing and the guarantee that, when bureaucracy cannot be eliminated, someone will help them to distract among its obstacles.” What is needed is “build investment environments, sometimes transnational, which function as ecosystems of widespread skills, where capital, skills, research and infrastructure are truly integrated.” And “the comparative advantage of Italy lies in the depth of its industrial ecosystem: mechanical engineering, automation, robotics, precision components: not only a location, but a capacity system”.
On the edge of the work, Valentini met in two separate bilaterals the French Foreign Minister, Nicolas Forissier, and the United Kingdom Minister for Trade Sir Chris Bryant. With Forissier, Valentini explains, “we compared ourselves to strengthening bilateral relations and coordinating the main European issues. A constructive comparison that has confirmed the importance of a close collaboration between Italy and France to face the common challenges and promote European competitiveness”. With Bryant “we have deepened the main European industrial issues and sectors of greater mutual interest. A useful comparison to share priorities and evaluations on the strengthening of the competitiveness of our industries and on the centrality of the industrial dimension in the European agenda.”.
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