The Valencian Innovation Agency (AVI), created by the executive of Ximo Puig, is now history. This morning, President Carlos Mazón presented Ivace i, the result of the merger of the Valencian Institute of Business Competitiveness (IVACE) and AVI. A new entity that “shows the Consell’s commitment to efficiency, the simplification of administrative procedures and the elimination of bureaucracy,” according to the Valencian president.
The new entity will operate within the Department of Innovation, Industry, Commerce and Tourism, and will be coordinated by four general directors of this department. With a “cut in public spending” compared to the previous model that the Consell estimates at close to two million euros for these four years of legislature by dispensing with the senior officials of these entities.
This union is “an advanced example” of what will be the strategy undertaken by the Consell “towards simplification, bureaucratic reduction and the elimination of the administrative fat structure” that the Consell has undertaken, according to Mazón, who has presented the new entity accompanied by the Minister of Innovation, Nuria Montes.
Carlos Mazón explained that Ivace i will increase “the effectiveness and efficiency of management and the reduction of bureaucracy”, by concentrating in this institute the implementation of policies and administrative procedures that were previously dispersed and in different departments.
In this way, he explained that “duplications are also eliminated” and “political spending” is cut, achieving an optimization of the entire management with the aim of “better serving the innovative society and the companies of the Valencian Community”, putting at their disposal all available tools available.
Carlos Mazón has indicated that the creation of Ivace i does not imply a reduction in personnel, with the exception of “managerial or superfluous positions.” Thus, he has reiterated that “all the talent in the house” will be used and the workers will continue in their jobs taking care of the day-to-day work.
According to the president of the Generalitat, “we are at the beginning of the end of a model from which we have already officially said goodbye”, in reference to the process of reduction of senior positions and advisors and bureaucracy that is being carried out in the Generalitat and that has put an end to “the most expensive government in history.”
“By eliminating entities, reducing them and integrating them, we are optimizing the Administration” and making it more agile “for those who innovate and pay taxes,” said Carlos Mazón, who regretted that the Generalitat had become a “mastodontic entity,” which “does not It was sustainable.”
