How is the entrepreneurship funded in Italy? What are the key players operating within the Italian startup ecosystem? What are the main ways in order to ensure the capital raising during the different stages of the startup’s life cycle? The following research work aims to answer to these questions, providing an overview of the principal players who support and fund startups in Italy, and considering and comparing two fundamental funding sources: investments in risk capital or “Equity” and awards offered by national competitions and announcements. Hence, the work presents an analysis of the two funding sources cited that support the Italian startups, considering 2016 as reference time span of the research. Indeed, on one hand, the main aim is to provide a quantification of investments in risk capital through the collaboration with Hi-tech Startup Observatory of Politecnico di Milano; while, on the other hand, provide an estimate and a quantification of the awards offered by Italian competitions and announcements, giving an overview of the main initiatives, rewards system, promoting characters, and execution locations. Finally, the role of capitals collected through national competition is investigated, whether they can represent an alternative or simply a complementary source to investments in risk capital or debt capital. Hence, the potential role of competitions is debated: contests as new ways to cover the typical gaps suffered by startups (e.g., knowledge-gap e financial-gap), and precious support to the Italian entrepreneurship and to the development and growth of the Italian startup ecosystem as a whole.
Come viene finanziata l’imprenditorialità in Italia? Quali sono i principali attori che operano all’interno dell’ecosistema startup italiano? Quali sono le principali iniziative volte a garantire il reperimento di capitali nelle diverse fasi del ciclo di vita di una startup? Il seguente lavoro di ricerca si propone di rispondere a queste domande, fornendo un quadro generale sui principali soggetti che supportano e finanziano le startup in Italia, considerando e confrontando due principali fonti di finanziamento: il ricorso a investimenti in capitale di rischio o “Equity” e i premi erogati attraverso competizioni e bandi nazionali. Si vuole quindi fornire un’analisi di queste due forme di finanziamento a supporto delle startup italiane considerando il 2016 come arco temporale di riferimento della ricerca. Infatti, tramite la collaborazione con l’Osservatorio Startup Hi-tech del Politecnico di Milano, si è voluto fornire una quantificazione degli investimenti in capitale di rischio da un lato, mentre dall’altro, fornire una stima approssimativa ed una quantificazione dell’ammontare dei finanziamenti a titolo di premi tramite competizioni e bandi in Italia, fornendo una visione d’insieme sulle principali iniziative, sistema di premi, soggetti promotori e location di svolgimento. Infine, si vuole comprendere il ruolo dei capitali raccolti tramite gare nazionali per startup, se possono costituire una fonte di finanziamento alternativa o semplicemente complementare agli investimenti in capitale di rischio o ai finanziamenti con capitale di debito. Quindi, comprendere il potenziale ruolo delle gare: strumento utile per colmare i due gap principali di cui le startup generalmente soffrono (knowledge-gap e financial-gap), e contributo a supporto dell’imprenditorialità italiana e dello sviluppo e crescita dell’ecosistema startup nel suo complesso.
Italian startups ecosystem : quantification of investments in equity and the role of innovation contests
PIGNATARO, GABRIELE
2016/2017
Abstract
How is the entrepreneurship funded in Italy? What are the key players operating within the Italian startup ecosystem? What are the main ways in order to ensure the capital raising during the different stages of the startup’s life cycle? The following research work aims to answer to these questions, providing an overview of the principal players who support and fund startups in Italy, and considering and comparing two fundamental funding sources: investments in risk capital or “Equity” and awards offered by national competitions and announcements. Hence, the work presents an analysis of the two funding sources cited that support the Italian startups, considering 2016 as reference time span of the research. Indeed, on one hand, the main aim is to provide a quantification of investments in risk capital through the collaboration with Hi-tech Startup Observatory of Politecnico di Milano; while, on the other hand, provide an estimate and a quantification of the awards offered by Italian competitions and announcements, giving an overview of the main initiatives, rewards system, promoting characters, and execution locations. Finally, the role of capitals collected through national competition is investigated, whether they can represent an alternative or simply a complementary source to investments in risk capital or debt capital. Hence, the potential role of competitions is debated: contests as new ways to cover the typical gaps suffered by startups (e.g., knowledge-gap e financial-gap), and precious support to the Italian entrepreneurship and to the development and growth of the Italian startup ecosystem as a whole.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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https://hdl.handle.net/10589/133606