How are female start-ups doing after the pandemic?
Lombardy, Lazio, Campania and Tuscany favor entrepreneurship in pink. There are 2,000 innovative female start-ups registered at the end of September 2022, 572 more than in the same period of 2019. Numbers, comparisons and scenarios from the Infocamere report
At the turn of the Covid 19 epidemic, many women gave life to new innovative entrepreneurial projects by setting up scalable capital companies specialized in the development, production and marketing of a product or service with high technological value. This is revealed by the data processed by InfoCamere for the Observatory on female entrepreneurship of Unioncamere . There are 2,000 innovative female start-ups registered at the end of September 2022, 572 more than in the same period of 2019. Female innovators represent 13.6% of the total start-ups, a share similar to that recorded two years earlier (13, 5%). But their growth, in these two years, has been remarkable (+40%).
FEMALE START UP IN NUMBERS
Also thanks to the report, we can discover that over 70% of the two thousand female enterprises operate in business services (1,455). Slightly more than 15% in manufacturing activities (306) and 4.6% in commerce (91). Residual quotas are active in other economic sectors.
The considerable increase in innovative start-ups, explain the authors of the report, goes hand in hand with the growing commitment of women in sectors with a higher knowledge content, such as information and communication services, financial and insurance activities, Professional, scientific and technical activities, Education and Health and social assistance, which today represent almost 10% of the female universe that does business.
WHERE DO THEY FOCUS
Innovation by women has its beating heart in four regions, which concentrate more than 50% of the total enterprises led by women of this type: Lombardia (470), Lazio (263), Campania (204), Emilia Romagna (143 ). In absolute values, on the other hand, the most consistent balances were recorded in these two years in Lombardy, Lazio, Campania and Tuscany.
Female enterprises are more widespread in the Center and in the South, where they represent over 23% of total entrepreneurship, with peaks of 27% in Molise, 26% in Basilicata, over 25% in Abruzzo and more than 24% in Sicily and Umbria.
WHERE DO FEMALE START UP OPERATE?
Overall, at the end of September 2022, there were more than 1 million 342 thousand female businesses and they represent 22.18% of Italian entrepreneurship. Among the sectors with the highest rate of feminization are Other service activities (in which more than half are owned by women), Health and social assistance (37.21%), Education (30.92%), accommodation and catering services (29.21%), agriculture (28.13%) and rental, travel agencies and business services (26.54%).
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/come-stanno-le-start-up-al-femminile-dopo-la-pandemia/ on Thu, 05 Jan 2023 11:16:47 +0000.