Modena, 25 June. (askanews) – Small and medium-sized companies are “more reactive” in times of crisis and manage to “grow” more than larger companies. But “they have more difficulties” and “are more penalized” for investments in research and development. This is what emerges in the Report on medium-sized Italian industrial enterprises and in the Report “The competitiveness of medium-sized enterprises between risk perception and innovation strategies” produced by Mediobanca, the Tagliacarne Study Center and Unioncamere presented in Modena. The study, as explained by the president of the Tagliacarne Study Center, Giuseppe Molinari, is a service that is offered to the institutions called upon to govern the socio-economic phenomena of the future.
“Medium-sized businesses – explained Molinari – are very resilient. The cluster of companies on which the Mediobanca study focuses is having much more capacity for reaction and growth than large companies, therefore it is demonstrated that all in all ‘small is still beautiful’ but it is so because the companies are family-run, they know react very well, they invest and look at foreign markets. On the other side of the coin it should be noted that smaller companies compared to larger and more structured ones have less ability to face the fixed start-up costs and that they are at the tail end of production activities, research and development costs on which these companies lag behind large companies.”
This type of company “invests in new technologies, but has greater difficulty – continued Molinari -. And the taxation that affects small companies as a percentage is also higher than that of large companies. So even on this there is a gap that penalizes small businesses.”
Due to “the demographic winter” there is “a decline in the population, workforce and competent people” available to work in medium-sized companies. “For this reason we need to have a healthy migratory flow consistent with the needs of businesses. We need to work a lot on this because the future of our manufacturing is at stake” concluded the president https://askanews.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Molinari-Tagliacarne-le-medie-imprese-sono-piu -reactive-alle-crisi.jpg 20240625_video_15572510|vd01|https://askanews.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Molinari-Tagliacarne-le-medie-imprese-sono-piu-reattiva-alle-crisi. jpg|25/06/2024 19:43:11|Molinari (Tagliacarne): medium-sized companies are more reactive to crises|Video|Economy, Videonews]
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