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he Decree of 21 November 2018
and business development in complex crisis
structure, the reuse of production facilities,
called ‘Allocation of resources from
areas.
and the relaunch of the economy of areas in situations of complex crisis of national
the Sustainable Growth Fund to
importance, achieved by signing program
interventions of conversion and productive
The Fund is intended for the financing
requalification of areas affected by the
of programs and projects with a
industrial crisis’ was issued in the Official
significant national impact on production
Journal of the Italian Republic in February.
competitiveness, especially for the following
companies and the attraction of foreign
The regulation allocates resources from
purposes:
investments, also in connection with the
the Sustainable Growth Fund to the
• the promotion of research, development,
actions that will be carried out by the
agreements; • the promotion of the presence of international
conversion and requalification operations
and innovation projects of strategic
Agency for the promotion abroad and the
referred to in the law no. 181/1989,
importance for relaunching the
internationalisation of Italian companies (ICE).
specifically referring to the coverage of
competitiveness of the production
the costs of the agreement between the
system, also through the improvement of
All the details relating to the Fund are
companies’ R&D centres and structures;
available on the website of the Ministry of
Ministry of Economic Development and the national agency for attracting investments
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• the strengthening of the production
Economic Development.