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32.6% of Spanish SMEs have exported during 2014, and they have allocated to international markets 26.8% of its turnover.
The average time required to start a business has been reduced from 23 days to 13, and the number of procedures from 10 to 6.
Presented today at the headquarters of the General Council of Economists SME Report Spain 2015 "Strategic Development of SMEs in Spain Analysis: the Role of Education and Innovation," prepared by the Foundation for Strategic Analysis and Development the SME (FAEDPYME).
The event was attended FAEDPYME president and rector of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena, Jose Antonio Franco;
President of the General Council of Economists, Valentín Pich;
Deputy Director General of Institutional Environment and Innovation Programme for SMEs, the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism, Ms.
Maria Simo, and Antonio Aragon, co-CEO of FAEDPYME and professor at the University of Murcia, who presented the report.
The first step was Maria Simo, who explained some of the actions of the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism to support SMEs.
"Taking into account the crucial role of SMEs in generating employment and economic activity in Spain, the Ministry acts on four areas: promoting entrepreneurship, innovation, administrative simplification and improved access to funding," he said.
The deputy also said that "in recent years have taken numerous measures to improve indicators in these areas, and have made significant progress among which stood out: the reduction of time in business creation by reducing the number of 23-13 days and the number of procedures from 10 to 6, bringing Spain to the OECD average (9.2 days and 4.8 procedures). Specifically, the system CIRCE (Information Centre and Network Creation Business) General Secretariat of Industry and SMEs to creating telematics companies, over 65% of companies constitute less than 1 day. "
In terms of access to finance, María Simó said that "thanks to urgent and decisive action taken by the Government to clean up the financial system, as well as legislative developments and other measures that have facilitated the deleveraging of companies, we can talk about a much more favorable financial environment. "
So said Simo, "until July 2015, new credit to SMEs (loans over 1M €) accumulated 22 months in positive, and in the last 12 months grew to tasasdel 14% yoy. Moreover, SMEs are financed today to minors cost: the cost stood at 3.03% in September, representing a fall of 211 basis points since January 2014 and 358 basis points from a peak in August 2012 ".
Finally he noted that "corporate finance Act of April 2015 introduced other improvements, measures to ensure the flexibility of bank financing to SMEs, and the promotion of alternative sources of funding."
For his part, President of FAEDPYME said: "The study presented today is a very strong management tool for both our political leaders and for our SMEs. Knowing the strengths and weaknesses of small and medium Spanish enterprises is fundamental in the current environment, given that the vast majority of our business is made up of small- and medium ".
Jose Antonio Franco added that "it is they who enable the Spanish economy more dynamic and continue the recently launched economic growth path that should never leave."
Pich Valentin, president of the General Council of Economists institution that brings together 65 schools throughout Spain with 70,000 referees, whose major professional activities is business counseling highlighted the efforts made in the last two years by the Spanish SMEs in terms of exports (SME Report as 32.6% of SMEs exported over 2014).
In this regard, Pich said that "it is essential to raise awareness among enterprises on the one hand, the importance of internationalization as exports allow meet domestic consumption falls, and on the other, of the need to increase its size to to compete abroad. "
Thus, the president of the General Council noted that "to promote this business growth has to pay special attention from the administration to the possible negative effects that might result from the tax, labor standards and, ultimately, commercial, translated into increased the obligations for companies that exceed a certain number of workers or turnover, which could discourage this growth. "
In this sense, Pich said that "measures such as the recent amendment of corporate income tax for 2016, reduced to 25% tax rates for all types of businesses are welcome, as they serve to prevent small and medium enterprises When retracted to increase its size and to lose the fear of `salto'" effect.
"In short Pich said Valentine, SMEs must do their job, be efficient and not have mental reservations when it comes to grow and expand, perhaps, in a first phase, out of their autonomous region and then to the international market ".
The co-CEO of FAEDPYME was responsible for exposing the details of the report, which was prepared from information obtained from a survey conducted between November 2014 and January 2015.
Antonio Aragon said that "the results show a scenario of uncertainty, but in turn, better expectations and improving the business climate for 2015".
Source: UPCT
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