The delegate of the Consortium, Fran González, received today Fernando Seco, vice president of the entity, which brings together more than 200 companies, Andalusian and Extremaduran.
At the meeting, coincidental lines emerged between both institutions, such as the commitment to business innovation represented by the Generasur center, launched by the group, and the blue economy incubator Incubazul.
In addition, this association has just established a logistics and transport commission that aims to promote and learn about the logistics spaces in southern Spain.
The executive vice president of CESUR, the Association of Businessmen of Southern Spain, Fernando Seco, visited the Cádiz Free Trade Zone Consortium today to learn first-hand about the innovation strategy launched by this organization and study possible formulas for collaboration and joint work. The special delegate of the State for the Free Trade Zone, Fran González, has explained to the head of this business circle everything that is being advanced in terms of innovation, a sector in which the entity has a strong weight after having launched a specific center of Innovation and business development, Generasur.
The Blue Economy incubator, Incubazul, is part of this line of open innovation that CESUR is promoting; in addition to the framework of the new 4.0 industrial model that the Free Trade Zone is developing, with leading companies in the technological and innovative sector recently incorporated into its facilities. Furthermore, it so happens that this business group has recently created a logistics and transport commission that aims to learn about the work of the logistics centers in southern Spain in order to make them known among member companies, so that the products can be promoted. spaces and benefits of the tax precincts of Cádiz and Algeciras, which manages the Free Trade Zone of Cádiz.
The Association of Businessmen of Southern Spain is an entity based in Seville that brings together more than 200 companies from Andalusia and Extremadura and more than 400 businessmen and senior managers, who seek excellence in their development and the territory in which they are located. , which makes it the largest business association by number of members in the country. The entity's actions are aimed at promoting business activity and launching and consolidating companies. Its objectives include its work to promote actions that serve as a driving force for the culture of business innovation in the south of Spain, in addition to attracting and analyzing the most innovative companies and entrepreneurs in the world to share their good practices. CESUR brings together, by turnover volume of its associated companies, 42% of the GDP of Andalusia and 40% of the GDP of southern Spain (Andalusia and Extremadura).
This fact has been highlighted by delegate Fran González, who has highlighted the importance of establishing alliances that “strengthen our commitment to innovation and sustainability and contribute to enriching our ecosystem. At Zona Franca we promote collaboration between administrations and public and private entities. In this sense, our membership in entities such as the Cádiz Naval Maritime Cluster, the Spanish Maritime Cluster or the Association of Free Trade Zones of the Americas, among others, enrich our ecosystem of action and are very valuable tools to create synergies and opportunities. of business and investment.”
It should be noted that CESUR has open avenues for collaboration with the universities of Seville, Granada, Málaga, Almería, Olavide, Extremadura or Navarra and with entities such as the Princess of Girona and Cajasol Foundation, ICEX, CSIC or Telefónica Open Future, among others.
