Programmes, Subventions and Aid 

Using the following tools and programmes the Directorate General of Industry and draws up the support policies for small- and medium-sized companies:

Entrepreneurs

• Promoting Entrepreneur Support Centres
• The Enterprise Creation Advisory and Initiation Points
• "Emprendemos Juntos"

Financing Entrepreneurs and SMEs

• Lines of Financing from the Empresa Nacional de Innovación SA (ENISA)
• Refinancing Mutual Guarantee Associations through the Compañía Española de Reafianzamiento S.A. (CERSA) as part of the following programmes:
• SME Guarantee Programme
• Convenio ICO/CERSA
• Securitization Fund Programme for SMEs (FTPYME)
• Programme of impulse to Business Angel Networks

Business competitiveness

• The Innoempresa Programme
• The Programme for Innovative Business Groupings
• CEVIPYME. SME Support Programme for matters related to Industrial Property Management and Technological Surveillance
• Orden ITC/473/2011, de 23 de febrero, por la que se aprueba el Plan Anual Integrado de ayudas para el año 2011 y se establecen medidas para su tramitación. [es]