In an environment marked by global competition, new countries are joining international free trade. This fact entails new challenges to the competitiveness of Catalan companies. These challenges demand that the Catalan industry - mainly made up of SMEs with a middle level of productivity and a low presence in high-tech sectors - gets a new competitive position in the international field.

In these sectors, a strategic reconsideration, an improvement on technological innovation and an advance in other kinds of innovation may be often required in order to speed up the adaptation to the new globalization context and to achieve new competitive advantages.

Due to the impact this adaptation process may have in certain areas, it is advisable to foster strategic and structural change measures that help reinforcing the competitiveness of those local environments that are more affected by the industrial transformation process.

• New business opportunities Program (Catalan version only)
• Announcement of helps for companies to carry out productive activities reorientation projects (Catalan version only)
• 2005 results of helps for productive activities reorientation (Catalan version only)
• Successful cases (Catalan version only)