On the day in which the European Council definitively approved the EU law onartificial intelligence in Rome, in Senate Palacethe spotlight has turned onsoftware industrya motor with an economic value of 56.3 billionwhich is waiting to be strengthened by incentives 5.0.
The Plan counts on 13 billion of euros, underlined the Minister of Business and Made Italyduring the opening greetings of the event organized by AssoSoftware on the role of Italian software in the transformation of the production system.
“Together, (companies in the sector and institutions) we can best lead the country towards innovative solutions”he underlined.
In the room fallen of Nassirya In the afternoon of May 21st they discussed the centrality of the sector Bartolomeo AmideiSenator and President of the Parliamentary Intergroup for Made in Italy and Innovation, e Pierfrancesco AngeleriPresident of AssoSoftware, together with Cecilia Jona-LasinioFull Professor of Applied Economics at the Luiss Business School, and ad Alessandro PivaDirector of the Software & Digital Native Innovation Observatory of the School of Management of the Polytechnic of Milan, who gave a snapshot of the sector which has 137,000 thousand employed people.
Digital transition: the potential of the software industry
For the president of AssoSoftware Pierfrancesco Angeleri “the world of software is the engine of digitalisation” with a still very high potential.
If today it is no longer possible for Italy to compete on the hardware technology front, it is not so difficult on the software front, where innovation is also driven “from the fastest startups to develop and conceive great ideas”.
The current direction, therefore, must be to create “conditions allow you to be successful”. On the other hand, the development potential is enormous: the growth of 9 percent, also highlighted in the data presented by Alessandro Piva, in the United States reaches 20 percent.
For us it is not one mission Impossiblefar from it.
“It is absolutely possible to encourage this type of company, to invest in universities, in our young people and in our STEM universities” which guarantee, also according to the figures reported by Cecilia Jona-Lasinio, high employability. These are, for Angeleri, the ingredients to strengthen the Italian software industry.
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Digital transition: the crucial role of 5.0 incentives for the development of the software industry
As he points out Cecilia Jona-LasinioThe Luiss Data Lab he did one projection of 20 percent increase in final demand: would lead to an increase in 5.7 billion in software demand with greater employment of 67 thousand units and an increase of 9.6 billion of domestic production.
From politics, the response to new pressures for the software industry is positive:
“Italy is in a favorable condition to create competitive and cutting-edge products”he underlined Bartolomeo Amidei. “We need to move more and more towards open source, depend less and less on other countries”.
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Given the crucial role of the digital transition, the senator underlines, the “Government must do and will do its part”.
From a practical point of view in the field there is the Transition 5.0 plan which can turn into a boost for the sector. Angeleri, in fact, welcomes thearrival of incentives where for the first time you untie the software from the hardware.
“Now we are waiting for the implementing decrees, we have been waiting for two months to have them, but we are convinced that the best work is being done to implement the measures”.
For the President there is no doubt: the road to a “breakthrough” it is already ready.
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- Assosoftware – Press release of 22 May 2024
- The press release relating to the “Software Made in Italy” event, which took place yesterday in the Senate, on the role of Italian software in the productive fabric.
