ICT growing in Friuli Venezia Giulia: more than 2,200 enterprises in 2025
The FVG Digitale Report highlights a dynamic ecosystem, driven by software and with a strong leap in hardware. Fundamental is the participation in international events that strengthen the region's position as a competitive ecosystem for technological progress
(Il Sole 24 Ore Radiocor) - Friuli Venezia Giulia is consolidating its role in the Italia digital panorama with an expanding and increasingly structured ICT ecosystem. According to the data of the Report 2025 FVG Digitale developed by Ditedi - Distretto Industriale delle Tecnologie Digitali (Industrial District of Digital Technologies), with the contribution of the Autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia and in collaboration with the University of Trieste, the University of Udine and Area Science Park, in 2025 the regional ICT companies reached 2,281, with an 8% growth compared to the previous year. "In the last four years we have shown constant growth," says Francesco Contin, director of Ditedi.
The digital sector in FVG continues to be driven by specialisations in software and services (which account for more than 95% of enterprises), while hardware remains a smaller segment of the sector. According to the report's data, however, hardware shows a significant increase in regional companies in 2025 with +56.9% or 37 more companies than in 2024, bringing the total to 102. Also growing, albeit more moderately, issoftware, which registers +3.7%, while services decline by 1%. A trend that confirms the vitality of the regional ecosystem and the growing expansion of ICT companies.
Contin goes on to emphasise how the last edition of the report, the 2025 edition, was dedicated to the "international dimension of digital enterprises in Friuli Venezia Giulia". That of the international dimension "is quite a delicate issue with respect to this sector, because most of the ICT companies in this area are companies that do services and system integration, so they are companies that do not have their own digital product to offer on several markets," says Contin, specifying that generally those who go abroad do so "together with their customers". Yet, there are some companies that do have their own digital product: "there are not so many of them, but recently start-ups are emerging, since the market of companies offering services is already more or less saturated". These are realities that 'start out as international, even though they clearly have their own difficulties in reaching foreign markets. They do, however, have at least an international flair right from the start and these are the most interesting realities,' the director goes on to explain.
An international vocation
In order to be able to express the 'international vocation' of these realities, it becomes essential to strengthen the presence at the main international events dedicated to technological innovation. In this sense Select Friuli Venezia Giulia, the regional agency for the attraction of investments and business support, brings the territory to the global stages, with the aim of enhancing its ecosystem of start-ups and companies and fostering new opportunities for industrial and financial collaboration.
"Participating in these events is definitely a great way to create contacts and relationships, especially in the digital sector, which can be more seemingly intangible than other sectors," says Francesco Contin. "The direct relationship with possible customers or foreign partners is fundamental, and being able to be present at this type of event, as the Friuli Venezia Giulia region is doing, is a good way to get noticed and to create important relationships," says the Ditedi director, who specifies how these occasions can also be useful for confrontation and discovering the trends of the moment on a specific market.
