Guide for investment

There are 590 companies with foreign investment in Emilia-Romagna with an annual turnover of almost of 21,000 million euro and employing around 50,000 workers.
Now the Region has one more tool to attract foreign investors the Guide for Foreign Investment in Emilia Romagna is online and can be downloaded from www.investinemiliaromagna.it in the Services for Investors section where it is also available in an English-language version. The guide, created by ERVET spa for Regional marketing in the Emilia Romagna Region is a genuine compass for those non-nationals interested in investing in Emilia Romagna. It includes an array of precise and detailed recommendations on how to do business in the region.

What investment model to choose, on what type of company to concentrate, where to invest, the initial administrative procedures and the necessary authorizations: foreign investors are guided through each stage to assist their insertion in the regional economic structure.
Also included are descriptions of the geographical and institutional characteristics of the Region, the Italian Regional fiscal system and the employment market.  The chapter dedicated to incentives and opportunities is also very useful. This underlines how Emilia Romagna sustains company development and innovation in the Region using European, national and local resources. The guide explains what funds and incentives are available and how to access them.

The objective of the guide is to promote skilled and advanced operations particularly in the field of research and innovation, the key factors on which the competitiveness of the Emilia Romagna productive system is based.

What are the current characteristics of foreign investment in the Region?
Almost two thirds of foreign investments derive from the European Union with Germany and France playing an important role. But the Region is also attractive to overseas investors with around a third of the foreign firms investing in the Region based in North America. The majority of foreign investments are in manufacturing and the wholesale trade. The most attractive manufacturing sector is mechanics , but there are active foreign investments in all the main Regional production sectors and in particular the areas with high levels of innovation.
Foreign investors in Emilia Romagna are attracted by a range of factors: the existence of an internationally competitive production system with strongly specialized sectors, a social and infrastructural context flexible to the main requirements of investors, the availability of rapid and efficient services for companies, a strategic position in the European zone and a lot more besides.
With one of Europe’s highest per capita incomes, Emilia Romagna also represents a market of great interest to foreign investors.