Small is not beautiful. Small is not productive. And if productivity, innovation and export capacity are directly proportional to each other, so small it's not even competitive in global markets. Grow in size is a fixed course, join a necessity. The more we look to our neighbors to plant such competitors, the more we lose opportunities.
Take Germany: sell abroad goods and services to more than 1,500 billion euro. Three times more than Italy. Has higher productivity than ours, he will say. Wrong: Eurostat data tell us that over 10 employees, the Italian companies show better levels of labor productivity with the German companies. It is in companies under 10 employees, that Germany reverses the perspective and shows productivity levels higher than ours.