The Invest in Italy desk offers a comprehensive suite of tailored services designed to support you at every stage of your investment journey in Italy.

1. Strategic Investment Guidance

• Your First Point of Contact: We act as your primary resource for all inquiries about investing in Italy. This includes providing essential information on legal and tax regulations, available incentives, visa and authorization requirements, and critical sector-specific data relevant to your business objectives.

• Deep Dive into Business & Ecosystem Intelligence: We deliver in-depth, customized information on key industrial sectors and value chains, innovative ecosystems, and leading R&D players. We also assist you in identifying the ideal regional clusters for your investment, precisely matched to your specific needs and strategic goals.

2. Identifying Prime Opportunities & Locations

• Tailored Investment Opportunity Scouting: We'll work closely with you to establish your business objectives for investing in Italy. Then, leveraging our strong network of agencies and partners in Italy, we'll help to identify fitting investment opportunities.

• Strategic Location Scouting: Our team meticulously searches for and proposes suitable settlement opportunities across Italy. We provide invaluable support throughout the evaluation and selection process, ensuring you find the most advantageous location for your operations. Some of these can be found through the online tool that focuses on territories, with a selection of available location opportunities.

• Exclusive ITA Real Estate Offer: Through a dedicated online platform, we showcase premier real estate investment opportunities across Italy, consolidating listings from esteemed public and private partners such as FS Sistemi Urbani, Demanio, and Anas.

3. Navigating Incentives and Human Resources

• Expert Incentives Advisory: We provide comprehensive assistance in identifying applicable national incentive schemes and fiscal benefits, along with tailored guidance on application procedures to maximize your eligibility and secure crucial financial advantages.

• Access to Top Human Resources: We offer a detailed overview of the Italian labor market features specific to your business domain. We also support you in accessing key talent sources, including leading universities, specialized higher technical institutes, and reputable employment agencies.

4. Streamlining Connections & Approvals

• Seamless Institutional Relations & Permits: We facilitate smooth interactions with public administration and other essential stakeholders. We provide crucial support in navigating procedures related to visas, authorizations, and work permits for foreign investors, ensuring efficiency during both the set-up and operational phases of your investment.

• Strategic Business Matching & Open Innovation: We excel at facilitating impactful matchmaking between foreign investors and leading Italian innovation players, including R&D centers, universities, and innovative startups, fostering valuable industrial, technological, and financial partnerships. Our in house, independent international trade experts and their networks can be promptly activated when requested to find suppliers and solutions

• Canadian Investor Search Service for Italian Companies: Our FDI Desk in Toronto and our Offices, strategically located in Canada’s major financial hubs, are ready to support with marketing specific projects to Canadian partners or investors

5. Ongoing Support and Promotion

• Dedicated Aftercare Services: Our committed FDI Officers in Italy, in collaboration with Invitalia, provide continuous, robust support to investors throughout the entire investment lifecycle and beyond, ensuring a smooth, successful, and sustainable operation.

• Event Support & Promotion: We offer comprehensive support in organizing impactful promotional initiatives aimed at attracting Canadian investments to Italy, which complement a range of campaigns and events in other countries by ITA’s FDI attraction network and its partners.