Campania, entrepreneurs under 35: it’s a record drop in the region with the youngest in Italy
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NoonMarch 5, 2023 – 07:47
The region continues to record the highest number of under 35s at the head of companies (11.3%). But a Unioncamere survey shows a sharp decline (-9.2%) in the last three years of activity
Of Claudius Mazzone
There Campania remains the region with the youngest in Italy, and not only demographically, also for those who choose to do business. That bell it is in fact the youngest entrepreneurship in Italyto say it are the data collected by Infocamere and Unioncamere on the number of companies with the majority of owners or members under the age of 35. But, in the last three years, the decline in the number of young entrepreneurs has hit our region hard. According to the statistical survey made through the chamber databases, enterprises under 35 in Campania are 11.3% of the total; a much higher figure than the national average which is 8.7%. Yet even in Campania as in the rest of Italy this type of company has decreased significantly. Compared to 2019 our region recorded a dramatic -9.2% of young companies. A number which, concretely, means thousands of companies that over the years have either “aged” because the partners and owners are no longer 35 years old, or, worse, have ceased their activity.
Degrowth
A decrease which is clearly higher than that of the northern regions such as Emilia Romagna (-1.5%), Piedmont (-1.5%), Lombardy (-2%), Veneto (-3.1%) or Liguria (-4.7%) , but also from the south, with the worst data recorded only in Abruzzo (-11%), Sicily (-11.8%), Calabria (-13%) and Molise (-16.5%). Campania remains the second region for startups under 35 in Italy, with Naples which is firmly in third place of the cities of the boot for the number of innovative companies with young owners. In the Neapolitan city these companies are in fact 705, 4.8% of the total, a higher number than that of Turin (547, 3.7%) and not far from Rome and Milan. Campania in its geography, also corporate, has well marked the global processes that are going through the world. The internal areas of the region, those most affected by the phenomenon of depopulation, are also those where there is a more marked “aging” of businesses and this is a trend that characterizes all modern economies. Avellino is, in fact, in fifth place among the Italian provinces where the drop in young companies is heaviest. In Irpinia, between 2019 and 2022, 778 companies led by under 35s disappeared, 15.2% less, a percentage that is almost double the national trend. On the other hand, in a province where double-digit youth emigration rates are recorded, one could not expect a different figure. Yet these very territories have for decades been the subject of development policies based on enhancing the potential of young people: funds for youth entrepreneurship, agriculture, start-ups and to combat depopulation. Processes that for now, at least in terms of numbers, do not seem to have had any concrete effects.
The reduction
The report by Infocamere and Unioncamere, if read on a national scale, however, shows how Italy is by no means a country for young people. From 2019 to today, young Italian companies have decreased by almost 38 thousand units. In 2019 they were 9.3% of the total, today they are only 8.7%. If we then extend the analysis time to a decade, the drop becomes even more profound and shows us how the entrepreneurial fabric of our country, in addition to the demographic one, is inexorably aging. In 2011 in Italy there were almost 700,000 young companies, in 2022 they decreased to around 525,000 (-25%). So what emerges from the Chamber of Commerce data is not only the confirmation of a national aging process, but also a new design of the Italian entrepreneurial geography. A new economic map, with a North that has in its corporate fabric, mostly made up of family and historical realities that hardly favor the access of the new generations, a brake on youth entrepreneurship and a South that, with the its low rate of old age, should represent a fertile territory for young businesses which, instead, are unable to exploit their primary resource: that human capital made up of millions of young people who, if given the conditions to do business, could transform the face of the Village.
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March 5, 2023 | 07:47
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