The head of the state body in charge of promoting digitalisation presented yesterday in Alicante the Government's flagship project to close the productivity gap that separates SMEs from large companies, the Digital Kit. Its aim is to simplify the procedures as much as possible so that the aid is exhausted.
After working for several public service companies, such as the Metropolitan architect database Institute for the Promotion of Land in Barcelona and the Agbar group, Alberto Martínez Lacambra took the reins of Red.es last June, at one of the most important moments of this entity attached to the Ministry of Economic Affairs. He is in charge of the largest project launched in Spain to promote the digitalisation of SMEs, the Digital Kit, which will channel more than 3 billion in European funds.
I think that after Covid, we are all clear that digitalisation is no longer a discretionary issue, it is an issue that must be included in companies and in society. And when we focused on seeing what level of digitalisation our companies have, we saw that we had to help SMEs, because medium and large companies have a level of productivity similar to that of any European company, and where we have room for improvement is in small companies, micro companies and in the world of the self-employed.
To give an idea of the importance of the project, what do SMEs represent in the Spanish economy now?
SMEs account for two thirds of employment and, if we look more specifically at small businesses, micro-businesses and self-employed workers, we are talking about 51% of employment. In terms of the number of companies, 98% of the productive fabric are SMEs.
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