BIC Lazio : Integrated services supporting micro and small enterprises, start-ups

1. May a Public body support
enterprise creation and development?
BIC Lazio experience

3. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
(Marcel Proust)
MORE POWER TO THE ENTERPRISES
MORE POWER TO THE TERRITORY
BIC Lazio has been sustaining the territory’s development for the last 20 years.
Thanks to its consolidated experience and to its overall presence throughout
the region, it’s able to listen to the requests of the local economic system and
to transfer them to those who wish to start a new business.
To guarantee the future entrepreneurs, concrete success possibilities; to enrich
the different areas of functional resources towards the productiveness needs.
In close collaboration with the Institutions and with the economic as well as the
financing regional community .

4. THE MISSION
Spread the business culture, as a social and economic growth instrument of the territory.
Channel all the human and professional resources available, through the business spirit.
Beginning with disadvantaged individuals (immigrants, disabled), deported or risking
expulsion (welfare cases, commuting personnel) or weak (young people, women) in the work
market.
Favor innovative entrepreneurial initiatives, for the technological development of the entire
regional productive sector.
Encourage the collaboration between companies (networks / productive threads ) and among
territories, to reinforce the competitiveness and to support the birth of the middle class
business.
Promote entrepreneur initiatives connected to a local process development, capable of
measuring callings and various context traditions.

5. Business is going to change more in the next ten years than it has in the last fifty.
(Bill Gates)
THE TERRITORIAL DIVISION
1. Roma 7. Rieti
BIC Lazio has expanded all over the region through: 2. Bracciano 8. Latina
3. Civitavecchia 9. Ferentino
4. Genzano 10. Frosinone
Incubators: structures devoted to the business creation and 5. Colleferro 11. Cassino
6.Viterbo
development and to the hospitality of new enterprises
Promotional entrepreneurial Centres: structures devoted to
the business creation and development 6
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Service points / Windows: informational services and initial
orientation. 3
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An integrated network of functions and structures, capable of 4 9
dialogue and complementing action with the other individuals of 5 10
the territory (Institutions, up scale Associations, Schools,
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Universities).
Headquarters
For the sake of an aware and balanced development. Service Points in the city and countryside
CPI
Incubators

6. INCUBATORS, NOT ONLY SPACES BUT SERVICES
Incubators are not only infrastructures. They
are places where creativity is possible.
They are places where innovators and
entrepreneurs can find not only support,
but even a community to exchange ideas
and find new opportunity.
They are places for networking, with the aim
of introducing new energies on the field.

7. THE INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS
BIC Lazio joins the European BIC Network ( EBN ) and the new european net Enterprise
Europe Network.
The aim is to help the small and medium businesses to develop their innovative potential
and to raise awareness when it comes to the Commission’s policies.
BIC Lazio also works with:
European Association of Development Agencies (EURADA), association that unites 150
development agencies in 25 european countries
IBAN, the Italian association of the European network (EBAN - European Business Angels
Network) of the informal investors on venture capital.

8. RESULTS 2010

9. Main clusters
Culture and creativity
Renewable energies and environment
Tourism
ICT and multimedia

10. Enterprise creation in the region
100,000 new registered companies in 3 years (2008-10)
New entrepreneurs: not only young people, but people with job
experience, from blue collars up to managers, executives and
professionals
New companies have better performances if connected in networks

11. Key factors to support entrepreneurship
Money + services
Promotion of networks of SMEs
Easy access and short time for administrative decisions

12. …which policies
To be on the field, able to support the full process from business idea to
start-up
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Strengthen consultancy for promotion of networks,
New tools to promote entrepreneurship

13. BIC Lazio:
Promotion of entrepreneurship and support to enterprise creation
Support SMEs diversification
Entry door to local, national and european programmes

14. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded
the individual. (Albert Einstein)
Our job deals with dreams of women and men, with their ideas
and projects
The core of our job is listening and understanding of people, our
ability of organizing “tailor made” answers for each client
Our job deals with people, because we give a contribution to the
building up of their future.

15. REQUIREMENTS
• Listening
• Network
• Specialization
• Signposting
• Human capital

16. Thank you for your attention
l.campitelli@agenziasviluppolazio.it