The Prime Minister defended this Tuesday that the implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR) mobilizing agendas will “change the profile of the Portuguese economy” and that the projects will act as “the multiplier” of gross domestic product.
“These 245 new products and new services [decorrentes das nove agendas hoje contratualizadas] will multiply Portuguese GDP and that means that, with the implementation of these agendas, we will effectively be able to achieve the goal we set ourselves, not only to restore the situation we were in in 2019, but to the profile of our economy”said Antonio Costa in Porto.
By participating in the presentation of nine more agendas and contracts with nine more consortia under the Mobilizing Agendas and Green Agendas for Business Innovation, the Head of Government emphasized the role of those agendas for national GDP.
The nine agendas agreed on Tuesday include a consortium on microelectronics, autonomous mobility, intelligent water management in the textile and clothing industry, innovation for digitization in textiles, possible application of insects for human food and animal, blue bio-economy, tourism and energy transition.
“It’s always easy to say we want to double, we want to triple, we want to quadruple our GDP in X years. We want it all. The concrete question now is how do we introduce the multiplier into our GDP and the answer is already in these calendars”he said.
António Costa pointed to the PRR’s goal of “not just recovering to the level” the country was at in 2019, before the pandemic, but “using the resources” of that plan to make Portugal “stronger, with more competitive companies, with more products with higher added value and with more export capacity and source of more and better jobs”.
“It is good that we have defined this ambition, because effectively in 2022 we have already recovered from the recession of 2020, we are already growing above what we grew in 2019, we already have employment above 2019, we already export more than in 2019”welcome.
That is why the Prime Minister stressed the importance of ambition when defining objectives: “It is a beautiful lesson that we must remember for the future, in addition to learning to work together, is that we must be ambitious when designing these programs”, pointed out.
Regarding contractual agendas, António Costa stressed that they are an “absolutely crucial project” because they define a “new working method”: “Regardless of the new services and products that will be created in the set of dynamic agendas, we manage to install a new dynamic in Portuguese society, where companies and entities of the scientific and technological system work together, where international companies work with small and medium-sized companies, universities and colleges or research and technology centers work together”he said.
As he said, among the 53 consortia formed, “1247 are involved entities, 941 are companies and 119 are entities of the scientific and technological system”.
Source: DN
