ROME, May 20 (Reuters) – The Italian industry shows signs of recovery, but continues to invest too little in research and development and the average size of our companies remains the lowest in Europe. The Annual Report 2015 Istat, today introduced in the House, he stressed that in 2014 there have been signs of recovery, with about half of companies with at least 20 employees in the manufacturing sector which increased the total turnover of at least 0 , 8%, and with the domestic turnover rose for the first time in over three years. But the Italian system continues to be characterized by a large presence of micro-enterprises with less than 10 employees (4.2 million), which works in the 47.5% of employees (it was 47.4% in 2007) , and the average size is 3.9 employees per company, among the lowest in Europe. The report highlights how the growth in size is accompanied instead to greater productivity in manufacturing companies with at least 20 employees, in 2012-2014, an increase in value added per employee of 1% was in fact associated with growth of exports by 8%. It grows, however, the number of enterprise groups, passed between 2008 and 2012 from 76,000 to over 90,000. Good news, as companies belonging to groups are more productive than “isolated”, regardless of size. MORE ‘EU PATENTS IN RELATIONSHIP RESOURCES R & amp; S In 2012, Italy has invested in research and development (R & amp; S) only 0.7% of GDP against 1.3% of the EU average to 28, but is above the European average for the number of enterprises innovative, with 41.5% compared to 36% of the EU, which means “in a number of registrations of trademarks and industrial design products among the highest in the world,” says the report. While we produce fewer patents per million inhabitants than the EU average (75 versus 111), the other our relationship between the number of patents and spending on R & amp; D is among the highest within the ‘ Union. More …
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