ANTONIO JAVIER LÓPEZ

Like Astérix and the rest of the inhabitants of that small gala village that resisted the siege of the Roman Empire, Malaga has become a fort, but in this case, for entrepreneurs in the midst of the anxiety of the health crisis.To the various short -term data that underpin this conclusion is now added the GEM report (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor) developed by the Chair of Sustainable Entrepreneurship of the University of Malaga (UMA).The study has presented this Monday in the rector of the academic institution and determines that the capital leads the entrepreneurship rate throughout the country.

Going down to the detail of the data, the study developed in 2020 concrete that this entrepreneurial activity rate reaches 7% in the capital.The percentage exceeds the costs of the province as a whole (6.1%), Andalusia (4.9%) and Spain (5.2%).This rate is calculated from the percentage of respondents that claims to participate in the property and management of a newly created company.The study has been preparing for three years and for the first time measures that indicator in the capital of Malaga, since to date it was done at the provincial sphere.“As in the set of Autonomous Communities, the entrepreneurial activity rate recorded in 2020 in Malaga Province is lower than that observed in 2019.In relative terms, the province stands out favorably about most autonomous communities ”, establishes the report, made in collaboration with the City of Malaga.

The UMA study also claims the Malaga entrepreneurial potential when it comes to implementing recent creation companies.Thus, the GEM report details that 3% of the capital population participates in a company with less than three years of activity.This average also exceeds provincial data (2.9%), Andalusians (2.3%) and national (2.4%), in addition to the data of the Malaga province in 2019 (2.3%).

Consolidated projects

It is also flattering the Malaga business portrait offered by the GEM report in relation to the business consolidation rate, which measures “the percentage of the population with age between 18 and 64 years and that is involved in the property and management of an activityBusiness with a life greater than 42 months ".In that area, the province (with 9.4%) exceeds the capital (6.5%), as well as the Andalusian team (6.4%) and national (6.7%)."Only the cities of Ceuta and Melilla, and the Autonomous Community of Aragon have a higher value," says the analysis.

Málaga, un fortín para los emprendedores durante la pandemia

In a similar line, the UMA report highlights that 20.8% of the Malaga surveyed "have received opportunities to undertake" amid the deepest of the current crisis.That data is very similar to that offered by the capital (20.4%) "and is greater than that referred to Andalusia (17.4%) and Spain (16.5%)", while only exceeded by the registered inMelilla (28.5%).In spite of everything, the health crisis is felt in a detail: that average reached 39% in 2019.

Similarly, pandemic uncertainty is filtered into another fact: 74.7% of the population of Malaga Capital admits that it has launched out of necessity, given the lack of possibilities of the labor market.The percentage exceeds 66.9% of the province and also remains above the figure corresponding to the year 2019 (53.2%).

The Vice Chancellor for Social Innovation and Entrepreneursimpact, which is the one that is requiring technological and cultural Malaga ”.In a similar line, the rector of the UMA, José Ángel Narváez, and the mayor of the capital, Francisco de la Torre, who have signed an extension in the agreement between both institutions to continue developing the GEM report and, of thismode, continue taking the pulse of entrepreneurship in Malaga.

Favorable context

Together with the survey, the study offers the conclusions of an expert panel.These contributions are translated into the so -called Entrepreneurship Context Indicator (NECI), whose average values the aspects analyzed by specialists.And in that area also Malaga also.Thus, the province obtains a 4.9 and that figure offers a tenth increase compared to 2019.In addition, Malaga exceeds the scores of Andalusia (4.5), Spain (4.7) and the European Union (4,6).

Physical infrastructure, entrepreneurship support programs, the offer of services and "shared social norms" are the main strengths of Malaga as a place of entrepreneurship, according to the report.On the other hand, the pending subjects arrive with a greater presence of subjects related to entrepreneurship in the educational system and the improvable availability of financing sources, although experts shows an improvement in the uptake of venture venture.

A risk that, sometimes for necessity and sometimes for the opportunity, assume who create a company.And there Malaga resists the envy of the pandemic, like that small gala village against the powerful empire he faced.

La pandemia amplía la brecha de género emprendedora en Málaga

"Pandemia has expanded the entrepreneurial gender gap".The Vice Chancellor for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship of the UMA, Rafael Ventura.The conclusion is supported by the conclusions of the Gem Report presented in the Rectorate, which determines a female entrepreneurship rate located at 3.5% related to the data of 2020, while in the previous year the average was located around 8%.

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Francisco de la Torre, José Ángel Narváez Bueno, Ayuntamiento de Málaga, Málaga (Provincia), Digitalización, Economía colaborativa, Emprendedores, Málaga Tecnológica, Startups, Economía digital
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