Riassunto analitico
Start-ups are now a global phenomenon which is gradually changing the world. They are “creating an environment for fast-learning with a safe opportunity for failure in a dynamic business” (Varbanova, 2019). It is all about innovation: “quick thinking means fast progress, which is how startups transform the world, by being twenty steps ahead” (Varbanova, 2019).
This thesis is structured according to the analytical levels of analysis, using an ecosystem approach, which “provides an integral and systematic insight into the characteristics that matter for regions to become and remain innovative and entrepreneurial, taking both cultural and institutional parameters into consideration” (Ester, 2017: 37). The microlevel contains the idea, the team, and the market strategy; the mesolevel includes all the institutions which support start-ups, such as government, universities, and other networks; and the macrolevel is composed of the culture that promotes entrepreneurship and innovation (Ester, 2017: 38-40).
After a first analysis of Silicon Valley, the “Holy Grail of economic development” (Kenney, 2000: 15), the available European support programmes and initiatives for innovative companies will be evaluated.
Afterwards, the German and Italian start-up ecosystems will be investigated to then be compared, with a focus on Berlin. The analysis will start from the microlevel in which the formal way to establish a start-up will be seen, to the mesolevel, listing all the different support institutions and programmes available nationally, and finally to the macrolevel, where it will be analysed how the country’s culture influences a given start-up environment.
This study is not intended as an end point, but rather as a starting point in investigating one of the most critical and new stages of European economics and in analysing as two different countries in Europe are dealing with this new start-up phenomenon.
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