Start-ups: 80 per cent have given up calls, grants and new markets because of too much paperwork

Eighty per cent of start-ups have passed up growth opportunities - tenders, subsidies, new markets - just because of 'paperwork'. 90% of companies say they have had to send information they already had to the public administration several times. For 59% of respondents, taxation is the most time-consuming activity, followed by customer and supplier contracts (almost 44%). Bureaucracy takes up entrepreneurs' time with almost a day's work per week (7 hours on average). And the costs are no less: for one in three companies, bureaucratic management exceeds EUR 30,000 per year. A boulder that weighs especially heavily on micro-enterprises.

These are the data of a survey conducted by Future Proof Society (FPS) among Young Industrialists, presented at the Italian Tech Week in Turin in a debate with Marco Ogliengo, CEO of JetHR, Alessandro Tommasi, Founder and CEO of FPS and Maria Anghileri, President of the Young Entrepreneurs of Confindustria, who shared their experiences on the topic 'How Italian entrepreneurs are overcoming barriers'.

According to Maria Anghileri, 'We need to unleash the innovative potential of start-ups and young digital companies by means of two fundamental tools. On the one hand, we need a swift implementation of the so-called 28th European regime, which allows companies to operate without barriers and with uniform procedures throughout Europe'.

For Italy, on the other hand, the solution is within reach, at least according to Anghileri, who says that in our country 'we must extend the authorisation model and the bureaucratic simplifications of the SEZ, which has proven to work by generating investment and more jobs, to all companies and in particular to start-ups and innovative SMEs. In this way we allow young people to stay and not flee to more streamlined and competitive ecosystems'.