Umbria is a region with fewer than 900,000 inhabitants, led by the same power elite for the past 60 years. For structural reasons and also for considerations of political consensus, this group has nurtured a public sector culture. From universities, to hospitals, to health care— regions and provinces can seem so swamped with staff that they would cancel any entrepreneurial impulse.
Exactly the opposite happened. From Terni to Perugia, through Narni and Foligno, the area is flowering with business ventures, some hearkening back to the dawn of the Umbrian chemicals industry, where Giulio Natta at the factory of Montecatini di Terni discovered the polypropylene molecule that won him the Nobel price in 1963—the only Italian so far to take the prize in this field.
Fonte: Italy24
