• Services Internationalization Plan, funded by the Ministry of Employment and Social Security, are free for entities that request it .
• The initiative plans to develop 150 individual reports and customized plans for internationalization of Social Economy companies throughout Spain.
Madrid, June 22, 2016 .- The Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Services of Madrid have hosted the "Forum of Internationalization of Social Economy", whose main objective is to explain to companies in this sector the benefits of international expansion , promote competitiveness and provide keys to jump outside.
The forum, which brought together 150 representatives of companies from Madrid Social Economy, is part of the Plan of Internationalization of Social Economy, a free character for companies launched by the Ministry of Employment and Social Security, the Chamber Trade of Spain and the Spanish Business Confederation of Social Economy (CEPES), with the support of COCETA and CONFESAL.
The celebrated in Madrid is the fifth and last of the forums that have been organized in various Spanish regions in the first phase of the Plan, and which have participated more than 500 representatives of organizations of the Social Economy of the country. Some encounters that serve to present what makes this project tools available to companies to meet their internationalization; among others, reports individualized diagnosis and recommendations for improvement, identifying success factors and market opportunity analysis and custom internationalization plans, all with direct expert advice.
The aim of the initiative, that started last April, is aimed at the development of individualized international projection capacity to a total of 150 diagnostic entities.
During the event, Carmen Casero, General Director of Self - Employment, Social Economy and Social Responsibility of Companies, Ministry of Employment and Social Security has stressed "the importance of the entities of the Economy
Social. It is essential that address their internationalization processes. The plan presented today in Madrid entities has been especially designed to help them calibrate their possibilities, make appropriate decisions and face an expanding successfully borders ".
For its part, Inmaculada Riera, Director General of Chamber of Commerce of Spain, said that "the future of a number of entities of the social economy goes through cross borders. Our goal is to raise awareness among managers of these entities on the opportunities offered by this process, demonstrating that it is perfectly possible through the successful experiences of some of his colleagues, and encourage take that road to which they are able to do so but has not yet been decided. "
The President of CEPES, Juan Antonio Pedreño, said that "this initiative is having an excellent reception in the Social Economy companies, especially those that are in early stages of starting a process of internationalization . " He also stressed that " in different forums held have been made visible successful examples of social economy companies that already have a clear presence in foreign markets and even leading sectors at European or international level. "
Innovation and flexibility, keys to success in international expansion
Cooperatives Gredos San Diego, Dinamia and Consuegra and businesses A2 Legal Study and Enterprise Mobile Leader participated in different debates developed in the Madrid Forum to value their experiences in the field of internationalization. The meeting was also attended School of Cooperative Studies at the Complutense University of Madrid and the intervention of the entrepreneur and innovation expert Carlos Barrabés, who has given some of the key technological change in which we are immersed.
Barrabés explained, "the future of internationalization goes through smaller, cheaper, lighter and more manageable products." Also emphasizes that we are experiencing a third industrial revolution where collaborative processes are increasingly common and where "social innovation must be built entirely and is in the hands of the Social Economy. The world is being organized in value networks in which scientists exchange their information and technological advances are shared. " It has also argued that the entire economy will end up being social economy "businesses no longer have customers or suppliers but allies and competition will become collaboration."
