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42.5% of small and medium-sized companies in the Region expect their sales to increase this year.
The data, extracted from the Pyme 2018 report made by the Economic Observatory of SMEs in the Region, reveals positive expectations for these companies, although the majority, 53.2% opted for stability and only 4.4% think that sales will get worse this year.
The professors Antonio Calvo-Flores of the University of Murcia and Domingo García of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT) have presented a report at the CROEM headquarters together with the rectors of the University of Murcia, José Luján and the Polytechnic University of Cartagena, Alejandro Díaz and the President of CROEM, José María Albarracín.
The researchers conducted a fieldwork from February to April 2018 in which they collected data from 1136 Spanish SMEs and 250 Murcia.
In terms of employment expectations, the report shows that 72.2% of companies opted for job stability, creating a positive balance of 19.8 points, that is, the difference between companies that expect an increase in jobs of work and those who believe otherwise.
On the other hand, 32.1% of the surveyed companies declare to be internationalized, a percentage slightly lower than that of the national sample, which is 32.5%.
However, 29.6% of the companies in the Region have invoiced more than 50% abroad, a percentage that drops to 25.5% in Spain.
Regarding the degree of digitalization, 80.6% of regional SMEs have a website, but only 18.7% use e-commerce platforms.
Innovative activity below the national average
In 2018 Murcian SMEs had an innovative activity lower than the national average, although those that have made innovations have done so with greater intensity.
Regarding product innovation, 70.2% of these companies made changes or improvements in products or services with an intensity of 4.39, compared to 75.4% nationwide.
And 57.9% commercialized new products or services, compared to 60.7% in Spain, and with a degree of importance of 4.40.
Something similar happens with process innovation.
66.3% have made changes or improvements in production processes with an intensity of 4.41.
In turn, the data show that the companies of the Region have experienced a more favorable evolution of the terms of their financing than the national ones.
32.9% have tried to access financing lines of credit institutions, compared to 34.2% in Spain, 37.3% have not agreed because they are self-financing and 29.8% do not need it because they are not doing investments.
Likewise, of the SMEs from Murcia that requested a loan, in 57.8% of the cases they obtained it in better conditions, compared to 51.2% in Spain, 31.3% obtained it in the same conditions, compared to 37%. , 5% nationally and 8.4% achieved it but with tougher conditions, compared to 9.2% in Spain.
Source: UPCT
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