Although now he holds the title of the Mayor of the town, Daniel Ortiz has been, for many years, Deputy Mayor of Móstoles and so knows first hand its neighbours' problems. And as almost everywhere else, unemployment is a major concern for residents. Therefore he provides support to entrepreneurs by providing a place where they can take their first steps. Last Friday he handed the keys to the offices of the business incubator to 16 entrepreneurs in the municipality, a pioneering step for new entrepreneurs to launch their business ideas.
The project has involved the City Council, the Municipal Economic Development Company (EMPESA) and the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, but has also involved the Young Entrepreneurs Association (AJE). According to Ortiz himself, "Móstoles is a city with talent, first class human capital, very young and educated, and a very entrepreneurial business community. Therefore, as the municipal government, although we have no power to create jobs, we are making the conditions to create new jobs so anyone who has an idea that can create wealth for society can develop it. "
Temporary home
The mayor said it is "an area of ??temporary accomodation, designed to locate new businesses in their first steps into the market, accompanying them and providing them with certain services for each project." In the incubator, Ortiz seeks to promote self-employment, boost socio-economic activity, support the implementation and continuity of newly established companies in ways that promote innovation and job creation in the municipality, encouraging those activities that are considered of great potential. The building is equipped with 16 offices and furnished, providing entrepreneurs the knowledge and the means of the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC), i.e. five campuses, 2,000 teachers and 560 experts.
To ease things further, the incubator is situated in an ideal and geostrategic space - Móstoles Technology Business Park, opposite the technological campus of the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, alongside Repsol YPF, the multinational ThyssenKrupp, IMDEA Energy and the future site of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Madrid, to which the City Council has already given the land it needs it to be located in the locality. The incubator is in Federico Cantero Villamil Street, Móstoles, on a plot of 29,000 square meters.
Councilman insists that Móstoles is "a small oasis in unemployment" and recalled that the rate is 12.48%, significantly below the regional average (17.01%), and well below the national average (21.52%).
Source: La Razón