{"id":6163,"date":"2022-06-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portale-collaudo-app-swap-hud7fvd3dgesgzaa.westeurope-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/assise-piccola-industria-baroni-le-proposte-delle-pmi\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T17:59:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T15:59:34","slug":"small-industry-assembly-baroni-the-proposals-of-sme","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.confindustria.it\/en\/news\/small-industry-assembly-baroni-the-proposals-of-sme\/","title":{"rendered":"SMALL INDUSTRY ASSEMBLY, BARONI: SME PROPOSALS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the past decades, Italian SMEs have repeatedly proven their extraordinary capacity to cope with change. LEnterprise and industry are now more than ever a factor in national security<\/span><\/b> and not just a mere economic operator. <\/span>It is necessary to . <\/b>decisively at the centre of the debate<\/b>. It is precisely through business that growth, prosperity and the future are generated. <\/span>Le SMEs are the backbone of our production system<\/b>, <\/span>a fundamental pillar for the economic and social resilience of the country, we must support and strengthen them<\/b>also because they will be able to give back to the territories and communities in which they operate much more than they received. According to the latest ISTAT data, in fact, companies with fewer than 250 employees account for over 90% of Italian companies, those employed in SMEs account for over 76% of the total and ensure almost 65% of added value. <\/span><\/p>\n

This is precisely why the Small Industry of Confindustria<\/b> considered it essential to build a<\/span> path of listening and sharing its base<\/b> that found its synthesis in the SME Assembly \"Listening. Courage. Enterprise'.<\/b> taking place today in Bari. Here, a document of proposals for the strengthening of small and medium-sized enterprises is presented with the hope that it will become one of the cornerstones of the country's economic policy agenda. These proposals emerged from listening to the territories through a<\/span>a approach roadmap that actively involved over a thousand entrepreneurs and in which the four macro-priority themes on which the<\/b><\/span>Attention<\/b>: Skills and human capital<\/i><\/b>, Finance and growth<\/i><\/b>, New enterprise between digital and physical<\/i><\/b>, Sustainability and the green transition<\/i><\/b>. On the basis of what emerged from this lengthy preparatory process, the needs and demands of SMEs to be submitted to external stakeholders in support of the growth of companies and the country were outlined. <\/span><\/p>\n

The long pandemic crisis, followed by the emergency linked to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and the shock<\/i> energy and rising commodity prices have presented SMEs with challenges that were unthinkable just a few years ago. They must, therefore, supported so that they can successfully address the double digital and sustainable transition<\/b> and can turn the changes taking place into opportunities for growth. I<\/span>he strengthening of SMEs today requires a great capacity for technological and organisational innovation. More needs to be done. Structural reforms are needed to make them grow and investments are needed. We must focus on intangible investments and strengthen human capital endowment.<\/span><\/p>\n

Attached is the full version of the Proposals Document.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The proposals in a nutshell<\/span><\/u><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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Skills and human capital<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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