In 2023 the growth of digital artisan businesses in Sardinia was 5.6% , a performance that almost doubles the national result which stops at +3.3% . It all equates to over 3,500 businesses with around 10,000 employees .
The island is thus positioned in third place nationally in a general trend that is the best in the last ten years : we have to go back to 2012 to find a better starting point (+3.6%).
Among the regions before Sardinia only Veneto with a growth of +6.6% and Lazio with +5.9%.
This is what emerges from the analysis of the Confartigianato Imprese Sardegna Research Office on the "Digital transition of SMEs in Sardinia", which reworked the 2023 Istat data.
Among the provinces at a national level, Padua is in the lead with +11.8%, followed by Vicenza with 9.7%, Cagliari with +6.8% , Cuneo with +6.2%, Treviso with +5.0%, Rome with +4.9%, Como with +4.8%, Sassari/Gallura with +4.6% .
«The craftsmanship of the future starts from here, from these companies and from a territory, the Sardinian one, which in more than 30 years has become the Silicon Valley of the Mediterranean - underlines the president of Confartigianato Imprese Sardegna, Maria Amelia Lai - which however suffers compared to European competitors, gigantic gaps in infrastructure, energy and taxation . Especially on the research and technology front, we must return to being far-sighted , planning and supporting all those entities that, with the intelligence of their workers, create products and services with very high added value. If we work on this foundation, we could be as technologically advanced as America's Silicon Valley. We must have the objective of bringing Sardinia back to being an attractive science hub where the best minds in the world could be attracted to recreate that strong habitat that was already being created in the 1990s."
