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- The National Innovation Fund (FNI) – in a regional level in order to develop innovation project in a
social/economy level;
- Young innovative company (JEI) - This status grants exemptions from employer contributions on R&D
jobs for SMEs independent companies less than eight years old whose R&D expenditure represents at
least 15% of their tax-deductible expenses.

Italy
Among the many strategic documents of the Italian Government and its local authorities (Regions and
large Municipalities) in support of innovation a very important role is played by the:

The Strategy for Digital Growth which focuses on:
- the coordination of all digital transformation interventions and the initiation of a path of centralization
of public planning and spending in matter;
- the principle of Digital First, through the switch-off of the traditional type of use of citizen services;
- the spread of digital culture and the development of digital skills in businesses and citizens;
- the modernization of public administration starting from the processes, overcoming the logic of
technical rules and guidelines and aiming at the centrality of user experience and need;
- an architectural approach based on open and standard logics, ensuring accessibility and maximum
interoperability of data and services;
- Solutions aimed at stimulating cost reduction and improving service quality, contemplating
remuneration mechanisms also capable of invigorating providers to pursue increasingly innovative forms
of service delivery/use.

The Strategy for Industry 4.0
The Plan envisages a steering Committee at the governmental level characterized by the presence of
public (Polytechnics of Bari, Milan, Turin, Scuola Superiore S. Anna in Pisa, ITT, CREA, public long term
investor companies such as Cassa Depositi e Prestiti) and private (economic and business world)
operators, as well as trade unions, and relevant institutions (PCM, MEF, MISE; MIUR; Ministry of Labor,
MIPAAF, Ministry of Environment). In light of the characteristics of the Italian industrial system (few large
private industrial and ICT - Information and communication technology players capable of leading the
transformation of Italian manufacturing; limited number of supply chain leaders capable of coordinating
the evolutionary process; industrial system characterized on SMEs, key role of prestigious university poles
and R&D centers; strong cultural connotation of finished products), the Plan envisages the following
"horizontal actions":

- measures to support innovative investment, stimulating the growth of private investment from
80 billion to 90 billion in 2017 and increasing private R&D spending by about 11.3 billion;
- measures to support skills development;
- measures for enabling infrastructure;
- economic resources to the extent of:
- 0.9 billion for the refinancing for 2017 of the Central Guarantee Fund, with its simultaneous
reform;
- 1 billion to be allocated to development contracts focused on Industry 4.0 investments;

OPEN4U: intrOducing Practices in opEn innovatioN 4U - project number 2022-1-IT01-KA220-VET-000085295
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