On February 4, Espaitec held the webinar "Main public financing instruments for innovative companies." An event in which the main public agents supporting innovation presented the most outstanding lines of subsidies to promote innovation in the provincial business fabric.
The day was opened by david cabedo, deputy vice-rector for Transfer, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Universitat Jaume I, and Juan Antonio Bertolin, Manager General Foundation of the Jaume I University and director of Espaitec. Both highlighted the importance of these financing instruments to promote innovation, encouraging attendees to present projects in the different existing lines of aid.
Javier Minguez, head of the Business and Associations Area of the Valencian Institute of Business Competitiveness (IVACE), presented the "IVACE R&D and business innovation plan", which includes aid such as: Createc, for small innovative and technology-based companies; I ASKED, which promotes industrial research and individual experimental development in SMEs; Digitize, a financing program to support the implementation of innovative solutions aimed at digitizing SMEs; Pidcop, for industrial research and experimental development in cooperation, InnovaProD that supports the development and manufacture of new products or the significant improvement of those already manufactured.
Maria Jose Tomas, technician of the Department of Institutional Promotion and Territorial Cooperation of the Center for Industrial Technological Development (CDTI), announced the main lines of financing that the CDTI makes available to large companies, SMEs, R&I organizations, universities and technology centers. In his speech he highlighted that during 2019 the CDTI mobilized 1.415 million euros for R&D&I, supporting more than 1.500 national projects. Among the aid presented, support programs for individual R&D projects or national and international cooperation stood out. Also support lines such as Neotec Innvierte, and programs to promote innovative public procurement or transfer.
Jorge Teschendorff, head of the Knowledge and Talent Promotion Service of the Valencian Innovation Agency (AVI), presented the set of AVI lines for strengthening the autonomous innovative fabric, which includes six key strategic lines: valorization of research results and their transfer to companies; talent promotion; promotion of innovative public procurement (CPI); strategic cooperation projects; consolidation of the business value chain and complementary actions to promote and strengthen innovation.
The webinar also included the participation of Ernesto Clavel, head of development, and Carlos Vallejo placeholder image, director of Quality, Improvement and Projects Colorker; Vicenta Ferrer, CCO of Nayar Systems, and Francisco José Vea, director of Innovation and New Technologies of Symmetry Group; as examples of success stories in this type of aid, who presented their experience in the development of joint projects with the Valencian Institute of Business Competitiveness (IVACE), the Center for Industrial Technological Development (CDTI) and the Valencian Innovation Agency (AVI) respectively.
