Abstract

Italy has been characterized by a strong restructuring of the industrial sector at the beginning of years 2000. Two factors played the principal role: globalization and euro. They pushed the Italian industry to an upgrading of the production, from low quality products to higher quality products. This transformation ended because of the long financial crisis (more than 7 years). To foster this transformation in a period of lack of banking credit, it is now important to provide alternatives finances resources (>private Equity, Private Debt, Venture Capital, etc.) able to finance the continuous necessity of upgrading, innovation and enlargement of Italian industrial companies.