List the main constraints on the development of start-ups

• Human resources: are skills lacking in development, innovative methodologies, user design, commercial product design?
• Technical resources: is there adequate computer ownership, work spaces and connectivity? Is there enough data available?
• Financial resources: do entrepreneurs have trouble contacting banks and investors, making their products attractive and credible to financial backers?
• Administrative resources and managers: are procedures too long, complex and restrictive or unsuitable for digital innovation?

Define interventions favourable to innovation

If the aim is to foster the emergence of start-ups, should priority be given to:

• offering premises and conditions for working and collaboration;
• facilitating procedures for setting up a business;
• making sure valuable data is available;
• calls for projects accompanied with subsidies or seed capital?

If the aim is to boost an existing ecosystem and make openings sustainable, should emphasis be placed on:

• bringing traditional and innovative economic sectors into contact to develop collaborative solutions via open innovation, forums and trade fairs;
• training and employment of skilled young people by creating universities/start-up centres;
• organising competitions around public data to make it more visible and open up markets?