The Department of finances and economy (DFE), for means
of the Office of economic promotion (UPE), has undertaken an initiative of
economic promotion called "Copernicus", time to improve the visibility of
the Canton Ticino to the foreign country, to increase the acquaintance of
the opportunities of investment in Ticino and to favour new takeovers on the
cantonal territory. The UPE is to disposition of the local and foreign
economic operating acting as adviser and intermediary between public and
private structure: the economic actor external to the Administration finds
therefore an only interlocutor to its disposition for the deepening of all
the administrative tasks tied to its activity. That allows to simplify the
procedures, to reduce the times of waited for and being involved with
timeliness the interested Offices of the State, in particular way for how
much concerns to the advising.
Operating instrument of the
Copernicus initiative is the Law for the economic innovation (L-inn)
approved from the cantonal Parliament in the month of June 1997. This law
resolves to do increase the competitively of the Canton Ticino regarding the
other regions of Europe offering incentives (directed contributions to lost
fund or cantonal fiscal facilities) to the industrial companies and of the
advanced tertiary (new constituted or already existing) that they introduce
innovations in the products, the services, the production processes or the
organization.
The UPE is to disposition of the
companies and the services for:
the free advising on all the
services and supports previewed from the State in the comparisons of the
economic operators
to inform on the conditions of
employment of the labour (Federal law on the work and Code of the
obligation)
the demands for entrance in
Switzerland of foreigners in order to carry on an activity lucrative
search land or available
manufacturers stable
the contacts with the cantonal Administration and the authorities communal
and federal
the external contacts with economic partner (banks, fiduciary and legal
services, industrial companies, private and trade-union associations)
