Diritto Pubblico Comparato ed Europeo

Sommario

1. La collocazione anfibia delle politiche pubbliche per lo sviluppo dell’imprenditorialità nel quadro costituzionale comunitario. – 2. Il problema dell’individuazione dei soggetti destinatari delle politiche pubbliche di sviluppo dell’imprenditorialità. – 3. I modelli: i principi comunitari per la promozione dell’imprenditorialità tra laissez-faire e costruttivismo. – 4. Gli obiettivi e gli strumenti: a) i caratteri della politica industriale comunitaria. – 5. Segue: b) riflessioni intorno alla Carta europea per le piccole imprese. – 6. Un’applicazione: il problema del finanziamento delle imprese e le politiche di sostegno. Il caso della Provincia autonoma di Trento. – 7. Dell’emancipazione dal sostegno.

Abstract

This article provides a comprehensive survey on the legal framework and the initiatives adopted by the EU and its member states to foster entrepreneurship. After having presented the fundamental principles of the EU industrial policy as enshrined in art. 157 TCE, the first part of the article deals with the outcomes of the so-called «process of Lisbon». Notably, a critical analysis on the open method of coordination applied to the European Charter for small enterprises is developed. The second part of the article concerns the more traditional instruments adopted in both the supranational and the national sphere to support entrepreneurship. Special attention is devoted to a functional analysis on the interaction between the national instruments of industrial policy and the EU general provisions on state aid. A conceptual distinction between legal devices merely supporting the economic activities and public initiatives emancipating the economic actors from the obstacles hindering their entrepreneurial capacities is suggested. Stepping from a case-study on the legal devices to boost entrepreneurship adopted by the Province of Trento, the article concludes observing that the tendency to conceive the initiative of industrial policy according to the logic of support rather than emancipation is still predominant.