The general director of Andaluc\u00eda TRADE, Antonio Castro, presented in Seville to the Andalusian aerospace sector, marked as a priority for the Andalusian public agency, the new incentives to business investment of this public entity \u201cto increase the capacities of the sector, already outstanding, to face its future challenges\u201d. \u201cIt is 244 million euros, co-financed with FEDER, in non-competitive calls for industrial development and R&D projects in which industrial SMEs have the leading role, although in the R&D line there is also room for larger companies as long as they accompany an SME\u201d, Castro pointed out.<\/p>\n
Castro, accompanied by Ju\u00e1n Rom\u00e1n, managing director of the Andaluc\u00eda Aerospace Cluster, reviewed the strengths of the Andalusian sector, \u201cwhose turnover and employment data are approaching pre-pandemic levels and contributes 12.84% of Andalusian GDP\u201d. \u201cAndalusia is the second autonomous community in the national export ranking and the one that contributes the most to national growth in aerospace exports, with foreign sales that have doubled (100.4%) over January-July 2023, reaching 1,813 million euros.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe sector must prepare to face the challenges of sustainability, the foreseeable increase in orders and the need to improve the competitiveness of the sector by strengthening the commitment to R&D. To this end, the head of Andaluc\u00eda TRADE has indicated that, in addition to the current lines, new lines of R&D are planned, these already in competitive calls, in addition to a forthcoming line of incentives for internationalisation that will be added to the actions that we continue to develop to facilitate the exit of Andalusian companies abroad. All this, up to reaching the forecast of 412 million euros until 2027 in incentives, in addition to another 355 million, at least, in financial instruments that will be managed by Andaluc\u00eda TRADE and the Regional Ministry of Economy\u201d, he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"