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In Business: The Neopolitan Tech Experiment

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The Neopolitan Tech Experiment

13/09/2018

BBC Radio 4 - In Business, The Neopolitan Tech Experiment

Can tech entrepreneurs revitalise southern Italy's failing economy?

Can tech entrepreneurs revitalise southern Italy's failing economy after many young people have left?

Can tech entrepreneurs revitalise Southern Italy's failing economy? Manuela Saragosa visits Naples - which has seen a huge exodus of its talented young people - to explore if a change of direction might be possible. She meets Neapolitans starting up high-tech businesses against the odds and explores why, rather surprisingly, in recent years the city has attracted significant foreign investment from big tech firms. What has been the city's appeal? She also asks what the business reasons are for building a company in Naples rather than elsewhere. Can the benefits outweigh all the myriad problems? 

Producer: Rosamund Jones.

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