The IPI is a government agency specializing in the promotion of growth and competitiveness of production and business systems in an international globalized context that imposes the adoption of innovative systems of governance intended to seize the opportunities offered by increasingly larger and more competitive markets as well as valorizing special territorial characteristics with particular regard to the SME system. Its mission, established by Law 104/95, is an eminently public goal and characterizes the IPI as a service agency of the Public Administration, placed under the oversight of the Ministry of Productive Activities. The agencies legal form is a private law association, whose members are the Ministry of Productive Activities, as the majority shareholder, Confindustria, Confapi, Confartigianato, CNA, Confcommercio, Confesercenti, Unioncamere, ABI, Mediocredito and Sfirs. The Institute's operations are oriented towards the following strategic objectives: * To respond to the needs of the Italian Public Administration and the governments of its partner countries relative to the definition and management of sectorial, factorial and territorial policies, with particular reference to the system of small and medium enterprises. * To intervene in the planning, realization and management of programs, system actions and tools aimed at supported the development of entrepreneurs, guaranteeing the effective and transparent use of dedicated Community, national and regional financial resources. * To manage systems at a national and international level that favor the access of industrial businesses to innovation, contributing to the modernization and expansion of production systems through the creation, rationalization and integration of centers for research, innovation and technology transfer, services and training. * To operate in the context of international, multilateral processes of industrial cooperation activated by international bodies and those bilateral processes promoted by the Italian government with the objective of creating environments favorable to the development of relations between different productive systems and extending the areas of shared prosperity.