Business competitiveness

This theme includes financial engineering instruments, such as guarantee funds, funds for loans and access to credit, co-guarantees and counter-guarantees through credit guarantee consortia and venture capital funds, and more traditional support instruments for entrepreneurs through the creation of new enterprises (e.g. Legislative Decree 185/2000), the construction of new production facilities or the expansion and modernization of existing facilities, and the improvement in the functioning of productive areas. Other measures include programming contracts to support the investments promoted by large enterprises and Integrated Packages of Incentives, which can include productive investments, business support services and business training.