00:00Deputy Minister Valentini, 50 years of a major industrial group's presence in Italy.
00:05What value does such a long-term investment continuity have for the country?
00:10Investment attraction is measured above all by the country's ability to retain investment.
00:16Here we have proof of this: 50 years in a highly innovative and rapidly developing sector.
00:20It is fundamental because here we have built not only production capacities,
00:25but of the knowledge, of the innovation capabilities that must remain here.
00:29So much so that Latina itself represents the second Italian province in terms of exports in the pharmaceutical sector.
00:364 billion capsules are produced here, of which 97% go to international markets.
00:43So presence is essential and it is essential that Johnson & Johnson continues to invest
00:48to remain in this rapidly evolving and highly tense sector.
00:55Deputy Minister, what role should the pharmaceutical sector play in Italy's industrial policy and competitiveness strategies?
01:02The pharmaceutical sector represents, in broad terms, approximately 70-74 billion in added value,
01:09so 6% of GDP, but especially in recent years it has proven to be the sector in which the most important things have been done
01:15greater number of investments in research and development and which has allowed us to be successful
01:21towards 650 billion in exports because this is a sector oriented towards exports.
01:26It is therefore essential to continue to enhance this Italian ecosystem which is found in various areas of our country,
01:33made of relationship with the clinical world, made of mathematical land skills, made of innovation capacity.
01:39Faced with increasingly important international challenges, we must try to provide incentives on the one hand
01:46and to find a point of agreement to succeed together at a European level above all and at a domestic level
01:53to face the new challenges coming from the United States and China.
