The Regional Government of Ñuble and Corfo yesterday presented the new IFI Technological Investment instrument, from Corfo, which has $3.5 billion to co-finance projects that are installed in the region, as part of the efforts to attract investments to Ñuble.
This is the “Program to strengthen and attract technologically based productive investments – IFI, technological investment modality”, which seeks to encourage the investment decision of medium and large companies, Chilean and foreign, in the areas of global services and also in production. of goods, focused on metal-mechanical manufacturing and wood remanufacturing, agroindustry and circular economy.
The announcement was made by the regional governor, Óscar Crisóstomo; the Minister of Economy, Erick Solo de Zaldívar; the regional director of Corfo, Macarena Dávila; and the program coordinator, Ingrid Quezada -former director of ProChile Ñuble-, who explained the details of the initiative, which allows co-financing with up to 30% of projects that represent an investment equal to or greater than 2 million dollars ($1.9 billion).
Along these lines, Quezada emphasized that the objective is to contribute to the materialization of technological, strategic investments or to the reduction of competitiveness gaps in productive sectors or relevant territories, through the training and insertion of specialized human capital, development activities of suppliers and the co-financing of technological fixed assets, which promote economic development, competitiveness and promote the diversification of the regional productive matrix. He specified, however, that the bulk of the subsidy must be allocated to the formation of qualified human capital.
The professional maintained that “the most important impacts that are expected are to contribute to the economy, mainly, in training and providing jobs that would be direct hiring, that is very important for this investment attraction project.”
“It is an important milestone, because it is a pilot project, which no region has, therefore, it starts from Ñuble as a model for all regions,” he stressed.
Likewise, the regional director of Corfo explained that this integrated promotion instrument “is already active and companies can apply. “It is an excellent opportunity for companies to think regarding investing in Ñuble, so that we as a region can reduce our competitiveness gaps that have to do with human capital.”
For the Economy Minister, meanwhile, “it represents a stimulus for more companies to establish themselves in Ñuble, and this will generate more employment in the region. As a Government, we make available the work of the Regional Investment Board, to support investment projects, with the aim of identifying possible critical nodes that may be obtained when obtaining sectoral permits, all of this to speed up investment.” .
Investment attraction unit
In this regard, Governor Crisóstomo pointed out that what “we are establishing are going to be the bases of the Regional Investment Promotion and Attraction Unit for our region, an emphasis that we want to give to be able to identify opportunities in our territory, also expand investment opportunities. our entrepreneurs internationally and also bring investors from other latitudes.” For that, he recalled, “we signed an agreement in May 2023 with InvestChile, which is the institution in charge of attracting investments in our country, to be able to establish this unit and today we are already taking the first steps within that framework.”
The objective, said the regional authority, is to develop the region to “generate more jobs, which is something that undoubtedly interests us a lot, and will also be associated with various other initiatives that are already in full swing, such as It is the Logistics Hub, the Innovation District and along with that, also the enabling of the Minas – Ñuble International Crossing, all initiatives that we have worked on in recent years.”
Productive guilds
For the president of the Chilean Chamber of Construction Ñuble, Ricardo Salman, this project is “great support to attract investments, which mainly points to an interesting niche of technological development. But no investment is left out of this incentive because they can be used from all economic branches.”
Likewise, the vice president of the Ñuble Farmers Association, Álvaro Gatica, pointed out that “these are good prospects for making investments in Ñuble, which we need very much, especially as it is the poorest region of the country, but apart from this we need Corfo put out other calls, especially for not so high investments, I believe that in Ñuble there are still people who can invest in fixed assets, above all, to get to agriculture.”
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