Guadalajara, Jal.- “Jalisco is the state that has most took advantage of nearshoring”, assured the president of the Association of Maquiladora Industries and Export Manufacturers (Index) Occidente, Guillermo del Río.
The leader of the sector reported that last Monday, Inegi released the official figures on the behavior of the export industries or IMMEX during 2022, which report that Jalisco was the state that had the highest growth in the employment generation In this sector.
“Jalisco grew 20%; we were the state that grew the most in employment generation; The states that came closest to us, which are merely exporting (border) states, were in the order of between 5 and 6% growth in employment”, commented the president of Index Occidente.
Del Río Ochoa stressed that of the total number of jobs that were generated in the country’s export industries last year, one out of every four jobs was created in Jalisco, and he attributed the fact to the fact that the state authorities established work groups in coordination with the productive sector and together they traveled to the Silicon Valley of San José California with a view to promoting nearshoring opportunities or the relocation of companies.
“And surely the public policies of the Jalisco Tech Hub Act will continue exposing this opportunity,” said Guillermo del Río.
Public politics
During the presentation of the “advances” of public policy Jalisco Tech Hub Act —which the government and businessmen of Jalisco announced in November 2022, and which was jointly designed to consolidate the state as the hub of innovation, technology, and talent in Latin America—, Governor Enrique Alfaro signed and delivered to the Legislative Branch, the initiatives to reform seven state laws and one decree, in order to put together the “legal scaffolding” that supports said policy and generates legal certainty for investors.
The legal modifications that the local Congress must approve correspond to the Science, Technological Development and Innovation Law; the Law for the Economic Development of the State of Jalisco; the Law for the Promotion of Investments, and Decree 18189 by which the OPD Institute of Training for Work is created.
Likewise, the Law on Government Purchases, Disposals and Contracting of Services must be reformed; the Education Law and the Organic Law of the José Mario Molina Pasquel y Henríquez Institute.
For his part, the general coordinator of Economic Growth and Development, Xavier Orendain, said that, after the reorganization of the budget approved by Congress for this year, the public policy Tech Hub Act will have more than 2,300 million pesos for its execution.
He explained that there is a bag of 398.6 million pesos for development, conversion and linking of talent; 1,284.8 million for infrastructure in upper secondary and higher education; 117 million pesos to grant incentives to attract investment and productive chaining and 518.7 million pesos in territorial reserve that the State will make available to investors with preferential conditions so that they can install their production plants in the entity.
“It is a historic bag of 2,319 million pesos that confirms the commitment of the Jalisco government to this fifth wave of the high-tech industry,” said Orendain de Obeso.
