AsseforCamere, the Chamberla of Commerce Limited Liability Consortium offering training services and support to small and medium-sized enterprises, provides a nationwide service for Newly-Established Businesses called Olimpo. Said service aims at guiding and supporting entrepreneurs throughout the process leading to the setting up of their businesses. In particular, it supports them in assessing their own features (first entrepreneur-focused stage); defining the most suitable strategies based on each entrepreneur’s characteristics (second stage: business idea); carrying out market analyses (third stage: the market); and, finally, in drawing up their business plans (fourth stage: the business plan).
The Chambers of Commerce are the key-nodes of a network that connecting them with local governments and newly set-up enterprises. Through the Chambers of Commerce, newly set-up businesses have access to all services provided. In particular, said services are based on 3 territory information “databases” and 5 support “technical tools”.

Territory Information Databases
ARCO: it is a database including data on companies and agencies organising entrepreneurial, management and vocational training courses.
COPERNICO: it encompasses qualitative and quantitative data concerning 0 to 5 years old companies. It aims at providing indications for the promotion of initiatives supporting the growth of newly-established enterprises.
CHARTA: it summarises and provides the data collected through surveys carried out at provincial level, with a view to guiding and supporting entrepreneurial development, and identifying new local business sectors.

Technical Tools supporting would-be and new entrepreneurs
DELFI: entrepreneurial skills self-assessment test (propensity to risk, mental concentration, ability to wait for the outcomes of ones efforts, creativity...).
CARTESIO: it is a multimedia guide for the Business Plan drawing up. It consists of two sections, with the first one dealing with the description of the business idea, market analysis, enterprise sizing etc., and the second one concerning quantitative and financial aspects (estimates of costs, financial resources and budgeting).
ULISSE: business risk assessment program in three economic macro-areas, namely Farming, Industry and Services.
FILO D’ARIANNA: database containing the information required to start one’s own business. In particular, it deals with authorisations, procedures, forms and bodies to which applications are to be submitted.
THESAURUS: database concerning facilitations and concessions for businesses and self-employed people. In particular, there are regional, national, and Community concessional terms, as well as facilitations for R&D activities, envisaged by the Community Framework Program.

There are both on-line (accessible through the Internet) and front office services (that is, provided by front offices and desks established within the Chambers of Commerce or Aziende Speciali [Special Agencies]).