*".... Many Italians are tremendously creative, industrious, inventive people, b...

".... Many Italians are tremendously creative, industrious, inventive people, but are going to find it more difficult to express that in some form of business ..."

I think the problem with Italian business culture (and maybe a strength) is they have not evolved beyond family based businesses. But I can think of an Inventive Italian tech. company that has succeeded ~ http://tinker.it/ creator of the Arduino ~ http://www.wired.com/print/techbiz/startups/magazine/16-11/f...