Italy

The studies made on entrepreneurship in Italy give a first structural definition of young entrepreneur: relatively high age (the largest percentage of entrepreneurs is over 40), low levels of education and training, higher proportion of women than the average.

For new businesses only 56.5% of entrepreneurs are younger than 40, and of these only 12.7% is under 30 years.

Individual enterprises in Italy are more than 3,364,000.

sole proprietors by age range

In 2022 entrepreneurs under 30 were 8,1% and entrepreneurs over 70 were 8,5%.

Between June 2002 and June 2011 have gone out of business 65,358 sole proprietorships whose owners were less than 30 years.

sole proprietors under 30 by region

Non-EU entrepreneurs
In 2002, business owners born outside the EU were just over 116 thousand. In June 2010 their share rose to over 258,500, an increase of almost 123%.

in Vicenza province

31/12/2010 in the province of Vicenza there were 77,037 enterprises.

Companies legal forms

Women entrepreneurs

In 2010 the enterprises of women increased by 1, 4% compared to 2009. The business with majority of female shareholders (between 50% and 75%) is more than tripled and the business with 75% of female stakeholders increased to 68.7%, while companies composed exclusively of women (as partners or as capital) have decreased by 5.7%.