15 September 2022
Chamber of Commerce strengthens its cluster or branch groups .
Although since 2020 the Chamber of Commerce of the Republic of Cuba has been working with the so-called clusters, these days these groups are consolidating and strengthening, in line with the strategy of accompanying their associates, say companies and new economic actors, in the processes linked to trade, investment and business development, and boost their role.
These branch structures are made up of those state entities, MSMEs and cooperatives interrelated in the same activity or sector, from all over the country, and in the last hours before representatives of various organizations and institutions, the Consulting Houses were formed and the Consulting Houses were reinforced. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Particularly in the second of these meetings, in addition to presenting the chamber programs and services in correspondence with the Business Development Strategy, the participants exchanged on the challenges to face in order to increase competitiveness, improve and diversify services, and achieve a true integration that makes it possible to open up more to exports.
Antonio Luis Carricarte, president of the Cuban Chamber of Commerce, stressed Thursday that if a sector requires the maximum institutional support, it is that of communications and information, for transversalizing the entire society and economic processes, for being very dynamic and technology, for which he reiterated his organization's willingness to contribute in terms of training, promotion, advice and identification of opportunities.
This sector is atypical, it becomes the driver of other branches, so we are facing a cluster called to do many things in order to advance in the fulfillment of the country's strategies, he said in the presence of Grisel Reyes, Vice Minister of Communications, and of Ivón Garzón, deputy director of Exports of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment.
Representatives of MSMEs and companies presented challenges and difficulties that require analysis and solution as soon as possible, as they are affecting exports or services, including connectivity problems, as well as digital transformation and the internationalization of companies. Cuban, without forgetting the quality and design.
The deputy minister of the sector highlighted how useful it could be to design a Productive Technological Park, initially in Havana, different in its conception from those of a scientific nature, in order to resolve in a timely manner some of the insufficiencies raised at the meeting regarding technological infrastructures to be able to export. For this reason, he called on the aforementioned section of the Chamber of Commerce to work on identifying the potential of its members, organizing joint work, drawing strategic lines and sharing the best experiences to be more competitive in the market. international.
On Wednesday, at the headquarters of Procuba, the Consulting Houses cluster was formed, made up of 13 of them including MSMEs, and which responds to the need to create services that adapt to the requirements that state companies and other figures pose today. economic, in addition to visualizing and advising them for their positioning in the national and foreign market, in matters of foreign trade and foreign investment.
During the meeting, the range of services offered by these entities was known, based mainly on specialized advice in civil, commercial, criminal, trademark and patent matters, economic contracting, representation before national entities, feasibility studies, certifications, administration of human resources, among others. It was also agreed to carry out an action plan that should govern the work of the cluster and that takes into account all the actors of the national framework.
