General data

Country: Italy
Region: Lazio
Lazio GDP (2007): 160.5 billion €
Companies in the region (2007): 578.151
New companies per year (2007): 410.000
Region population (2007): 5.3 million
Region Unemployment Rate (2007): 6,4%

Business Innovation Centre Lazio is located in one of the most economically dynamic region in Italy: the Region of Lazio. With a population of 5.3 million, Lazio is one of the most important regions in Italy accounting for 10,1% of the GDP.

Business Innovation Centre Lazio, founded in 1990 by the Latium Region, is a joint stock (PLC) corporation, part of a network of regional development offices whose main aim is to promote and encourage new enterprises, update and modernise existing projects, to introduce an enterprise culture throughout the region and to offer managerial and technical knowledge to local public offices.

BIC Lazio profile

Founded year: 1990
BIC since: 1991
Legal status: Public Company
Funded by: the Government of Lazio Region
Stakeholders: Regione Lazio, Chamber of Commerce of Rome, Private banks, Industrial associations (in the very next future BIC Lazio will become an in-house company, with local government of Regione Lazio as the only one shareholder).
Target Market: Entrepreneurs and SMEs
BIC catchment area: Lazio
HHRR: 72 team members
Incubation space: Office spaces, work stations, meeting/training and conference rooms

 
BIC Lazio Value Added Service: “Glocalisation”

“Glocalization” means the simultaneity – the co-presence – of both universalizing and particularizing tendencies’.  Product or service is more likely to succeed if it is adapted to the specific requirements of local practices .
Robertson, R. (1997)

BIC Lazio catchment area is one with 5.3 million of habitants (55% of the population concentrated in Rome), 5 provinces and 17,208 km². In order to reach every single entrepreneur and SME in the region, not only is necessary to have offices in different location through the region but also to customize the services offered to the reality of the each area.

Thanks to a network of 7 incubators, 5 business promotion centres (CPI) and several information outlets placed in strategic points, BIC Lazio is in close contact to every entrepreneur in the region.

• Network of Incubators: structures which supply support services for the development and creation of businesses, including fitted out space for new ones. 
• Network of business promotion centres (CPI) providing the same services as the incubators, apart from providing the actual space for the new business set-ups. 
• Network of information outlets placed in strategic points to provide initial advice and supply basic information.

This structure allows BIC Lazio to adapt programs, services and the way they are delivered, to the specific features of every town in the region. 

Useful Tools & Programs
In 2006 BIC Lazio carried out a study aimed at assessing the competitiveness of the enterprises involved direct or indirectly with the Fiat Plant based in Cassino – Piedimonte S. Germano (within the Province of Frosinone in the Latium Region). Following the results of this study the Region of Lazio decided to put in place a new initiative target to these companies, which were part of the Fiat supply system. BIC Lazio was the centre in charge of the project.

During 18 months BIC Lazio analyzed these companies and help them to identify which products and services could be offered to other sectors (apart from the automotive one) in order to overcome the difficult economic situation that was (and is) living the automobile sector.
 
 
BIC Lazio in brief

Results in 2007

Networks

• The European BIC Network (EBN)
• EURADA
• Enterprise European Network (EEN)
• EBAN

Ongoing projects

• EBI Italy - ESA Business Incubation at ESRIN
• Regional support specific actions
• KIS4SAT – European Project
• CO-LLABS – European Project

Awards

• Idea Prize
• Essay Prize
• Research and Innovation Prize

In the face of the financial crisis

BIC Lazio supports its clients helping them in finding and catching the opportunities linked to national tax credit due to their activities or subsidized credit through framework agreement with local banks.

Recommendation to a new BICs

• Create a network from the beginning
• Analyse what services exists and don’t in the region: NOT duplicate

Virtual Italian Parks Success story

See detailed description of this company here

BIC Lazio SpA
Via Casilina, 3T
ITALY-00182 Roma
TEL: +39 06 803 680; FAX: 06 80 368 201
E-Mail: bic@biclazio.it Web site: www.biclazio.it