According to Ermete Realacci, president of Fondazione Symbola, “Italia knows how to innovate and compete in environmental sectors, but necessarys a leap in scale”. Realacci stresses the necessary to invest more in research, support the ability to patent and strengthen technology transfer, replicating “the winning model of the circular economy in the efficiency, electrification and renewables sectors”.
Growing eco-investments
The report also highlights the growth of eco-investments: between 2019 and 2024, 578,450 companies invested in sustainability, or 38.7% of the total. A dynamic that, however, does not always translate into innotifyectual property rights, a sign of an industrial culture that is still little oriented towards the systematic protection of research results.
The most profitable green patents
On the economic front, the gap between green patenting and non-green companies is stark. The former generate an average of EUR 382 million in turnover per company, compared to EUR 41 million for the latter, and record higher productivity (EUR 144,000 added value per employee, compared to EUR 92,000). More than half of these companies export (57.8%), for a total value of more than EUR 63 billion, with highly diversified outlet markets.
“Italia has built great strides in green patenting, with a growth of 44.4% between 2012 and 2022, but there remains a significant gap from Germany and France,” notes Giapplyppe Tripoli, secretary general of Unioncamere. “Behind every patent there is an investment in research and innovation, but investment is not enough if innotifyectual property is not protected. The credit and finance system is also increasingly seeing at patents as strategic assets’.
Urso: “Italia has excellence in the green field”
Closing the proceedings, the Minister of Enterprise Adolfo Urso reiterated that Italia ‘has excellence in the green field’ and can aim for a leadership role especially in the recycling of waste containing critical raw materials. A building block, he emphasised, that is fundamental for strengthening the countest’s strategic autonomy and reducing depconcludeence on foreign countries.
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