The Ministry of Industry and Tourism has supported more than 8,450 companies in the last 45 years, channeling more than 1.5 billion euros through the National Innovation Company (Enisa), as communicated this Thursday during the celebration of EnisaDay.
At the event, the Minister of Industry and Tourism, Jordi Hereu, stressed that "vision, sustained effort, and collective work" have made it possible for the public entity to "turn the projects of thousands of entrepreneurs into business realities". "Without Enisa, Spain would not be the same," he emphasized.
Hereu insisted that collaboration between public funding and private initiative is "key to strengthening the country's competitiveness, territorial cohesion, and international projection," according to the note released by the department.
The CEO of Enisa added that "Enisa is the public piece that allows activating new financing routes and accompanying business development, turning talent into real economic activity and qualified employment."
For her part, the president of Enisa and general director of Industrial Strategy and SMEs of the Ministry of Industry and Tourism, Teresa Parejo, highlights that the availability of resources for the entity "is guaranteed beyond the temporal framework" of the funds from the Resilience, Transformation and Recovery Plan (PRTR), whose management constitutes, according to the Ministry, "one of the most relevant advances in the recent evolution of Enisa".
This financial security, Parejo points out, "allows consolidating a stable model of public support for entrepreneurship and innovative SMEs in Spain."
Industry and Tourism maintains that Enisa has been decisive for the development of entrepreneurial ecosystems throughout the territory, the "strengthening" of the productive fabric, and "a progressive transformation towards a more innovative, competitive, and knowledge-based model."
Likewise, the Ministry values that the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) recognizes Enisa's strategic role as an essential player in consolidating the impetus of the Startups Law. It also recalls that more than 2,200 companies have achieved startup company certification and indicates that the Community of Madrid (with 468 million euros), Catalonia (467.6 million), and the Valencian Community (116.6 million) concentrate the largest amounts of financing.