Paolo Rosso

SMEs competitiveness

Paolo Rosso is partner of CSIL since 1998, where he carries out international industrial development projects, and research and consultancy in SMEs sectors. He is free lance consultant and professional engineer since 1990.

Among his main current clients he works for "Studiare Sviluppo" in-house agency of the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance, Department for Development and Cohesion policies for coordinating EC institutional twinning projects and bilateral cooperation projects aimed at transferring the Italian experience on EC Structural Funds programming and management (in Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland, Malta, Croatia, among others) and for various Italian Regions as senior consultant in EC Structural Funds implementation (Obj. 1 and obj. 2, CIP Interreg, ERDF Innovative actions).

Further collaborations include IADB - Inter-American Development Bank of Washington-DC for projects concerning SMEs, regional and local development and competitiveness in Latin America and ERVET - Regional Development Agency of Emilia-Romagna Region of Bologna (Italy) on regional development projects. In ERVET in the early '90, he worked as responsible for Regional Planning Unit.