The dataset collects business support projects funded by the Cohesion Policy in Italy between 2000 and 2024. The information is derived from the OpenCoesione portal, which makes official data from the National Monitoring System available in open data format.
Only projects related to granting incentives to production units, subscription or increase of share capital (including spin-offs), and risk or guarantee funds, initiated in the programming cycles 2000–2006, 2007–2013, and 2014–2020, and uniquely localized at the municipal level are included. Multi-localized, cross-border, international projects, and those generically referring to "All Municipalities" are excluded. The version of the dataset used for this elaboration refers to the April 2024 update.
Each project is described by a broad set of variables: identifiers (CUP and local codes), nature and typology, economic sector, territorial localization (with ISTAT codes), beneficiary and implementing entities, financial amounts (public, private, and European), progress status, and procedural indicators. Amounts are expressed in euros and revalued to 2021.
The dataset was created as part of the PRIN 2022 The assessment of regional development policies in Italy through a new database (1950s–2000s) and provides a homogeneous, documented, and ready-to-use information base, useful for empirical analyses on the effects of business incentive policies, both at the micro-territorial (municipal) and aggregate (provincial) levels, as well as aggregated by sector.
For further details, please refer to the microdata metadata available on the same page.
For proper citation of the data, use:
"Cohesion policy incentives for businesses (2000–2024)", edited by Anna Laura Baraldi, Claudia Cantabene, Alessandro De Iudicibus, Giovanni Fosco, based on "OpenCoesione" data for PRIN 2022, The assessment of regional development policies in Italy through a new database (1950s–2000s), https://opencoesione.gov.it