Emerging gateways for Italian high tech companies to the Silicon Valley entrepreneurial ecosystem

Italian high tech firms are currently undergoing a second revolution, incorporating economic development and searching for global expansion. Emerging realities as gateways, deal flow organizations and startups incubators allows Italian technology based SMEs to get access to the huge US market. Therefore Italian brain drain to the USA can be reversed as brain gain for Italy, through a technology – bridge between these two countries. Different forms of gateways and this new strategy are analyzed in this thesis