Startup survey 2016. E-book

The survey was ideated within the framework of the Technical Committee for the monitoring and evaluation of the national strategy in support
of innovative startups, in accordance with Ministerial Decree 31 January 2014. The Committee is chaired by Stefano Firpo, Director General for Industrial Policy, Competitiveness and the SMEs of the Ministry of Economic Development.
The questionnaire was designed by Mattia  Corbetta (Ministry of Economic Development) and Luca Grilli (Polytechnic University of Milan).
The National Institute of Statistics (Istat) was responsible for the technical planning and the conduction of the survey, as well as for its
disclosure, with the support of the Ministry of Economic Development and InfoCamere (Luigi Marangon, Project Manager).
Istat also carried out the validation and processing of the collected data. Mattia Corbetta and Stefano Menghinello (Istat) coordinated and supervised the drafting of the present report. Barbara Gentili and Marinella Pepe contributed to the checks for data consistency and the overall editing of the text respectively.