Tuesday, December 23, 2025 - 18:45
- The regional minister notes that the aim of the programme is to generate value chains and to connect leading companies with smaller ones that can benefit from high value-added resources
- The Official Gazette of Galicia (DOG) today publishes the decision on this year’s call, under which grants have been awarded to three companies that will receive up to 60% of the planned investment
- A Coruña, 23 December 2025
- The Regional Minister for Economy and Industry, María Jesús Lorenzana, highlighted this morning “the important effort being made by Galician industry to innovate and to position itself as modern and technologically advanced companies”. She stressed that “this work is supported by the Regional Government with the aim of strengthening a sector which in Galicia is very strong and which will make it possible to increase the competitiveness of our business fabric”.
- The Regional Minister today visited the Advanced Services Centre of the City of ICT in A Coruña, one of the three companies benefiting from the Open Strategic Infrastructures Programme, promoted by Igape and whose decision is published in today’s Official Gazette of Galicia (DOG). This is Orange Espagne, S.A.U. (MasOrange Group), responsible for the AI4B Project: Artificial intelligence for businesses, which will receive a contribution of 1.3 million euros to launch an artificial intelligence platform aimed at the B2B market.
- Lorenzana recalled that this aid scheme is aimed at large Galician companies in order to promote a more modern, collaborative and competitive productive ecosystem from which SMEs and entrepreneurs can benefit, “who are those that find it more difficult to incorporate this innovation into their production processes, their products, their organisation and also their services”. At the same time, she highlighted Orange’s proposal as it combines two essential elements: support for technology companies so that they can develop innovative solutions and the provision of these cutting-edge products to the Galician business community.
- María Jesús Lorenzana underlined the work that both the business fabric and public administrations are doing to meet the challenge of progressing in industrial innovation. This effort is reflected in figures “as we are seeing in Galicia, which according to data from the National Statistics Institute has increased its spending on business innovation by 30%, to 1,073 million euros, placing us as one of the regions with the highest growth”. Lorenzana also referred to the increase in the share that the Galician Autonomous Community represents in innovation investment in Spain, “where we have already reached 4.6% of the national total”.
- In addition to Orange Espagne S.A.U., the companies Alén Space and Real Club Celta de Vigo were also beneficiaries of this year’s call. In total, the Galician Government will grant nearly 4 million euros to support the launch of three new advanced, shared and open-use centres in Galicia.
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