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Smart&Start

Smart&Start Italia is an incentive that supports the creation and growth of innovative high tech start-ups in all the Italian regions.

Finance corporate plans with expenses ranging between Euro 100,000 and Euro 1.5 million to acquire capital assets, services, expenses of personnel and company operating costs.

The business project must have at least one of the following characteristics:

  • have a major high tech and innovative content;
  • be directed to the development of products, services or solutions in the digital economy field, artificial intelligence, blockchain and internet of things;
  • must be aimed at economic enhancement of results in public and private research.

The facilitation granted is a zero interest loan without any guarantee that covers 80% of eligible expenses.

This percentage can increase to 90% if the start-up is made up entirely of women and young people below the age of 36 years or if among partners there is an expert with a title of Italian Phd (or equivalent) who works abroad and wishes to return to Italy.