Entrepreneurship. Projects - Research - ESADE Entrepreneurship Institute (EEI) The Scientific Committee, composed of experts in the social sector, business, academic and financial, selected on 26 April to the 10 finalists. We have chosen those social enterprises that best suit the program's selection criteria: experience significant social impact, innovation, potential to scale and economic sustainability, among others. Of the 101 applications submitted to the third edition of Momentum Project, from 11 autonomous regions, the 10 projects chosen represent six of them: Andalusia, Catalonia, Galicia, Madrid, Navarra and Valencia. Regarding the sectors, the map is very varied, with a slight predominance of the sectors of food, services and technology. The chosen are: A Puntadas Empresa Social S. L.: social enterprise born in Valencia in 2011 and works in the field of textiles.
Freshcut S.L. - Galifresh: Special Employment Centre founded in Galicia and dedicated to the food sector, Freshcut seeks to promote healthy habits through continued innovation in their products. Research - ESADE Entrepreneurship Institute (EEI) The White Paper on Entrepreneurship in Spain, written by ESADE and promoted by Fundación Príncipe de Girona, suggests strategies to boost entrepreneurship in Spain. Why the Spanish aren’t entrepreneurs. Barcelona -- Generation Y in Spain isn't asking why, they're just floundering about. Sixty percent of the country's over-educated lost generation of university and master's graduates aged 30 and under aren't getting hired. With around 26 percent unemployment nationwide, these young adults are left to fight over unpaid internships and jobs beneath their experience levels, just to get something to put on their resume.
According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD,) 44 percent of the Spanish aged 25 to 29 that actually have jobs are working in ones that require lesser skills than they have. So with no families, no mortgages and little else to lose, why aren't more of them creating jobs for themselves? Many say the Spanish are just lazy, but that's not it. So instead of between 50 and 80 percent of recent grads studying for absurdly competitive government jobs, why aren't they creating their own opportunities? SME Performance Review - Small and medium sized enterprises (SME) - Enterprise and Industry. The SME Performance Review is one of the main tools the European Commission uses to monitor and assess countries' progress in implementing the Small Business Act (SBA) on a yearly basis. With an emphasis on the measures from the SBA Action Plan, the review brings comprehensive information on the performance of SMEs in EU Member States and other 9 partner countries.
It consists of two parts – Annual Report on European SMEs and SBA country fact sheets. Brussels, 26 November 2013 - The European Commission published today the 2012/2013 Annual Report on European SMEs. The Report on European SMEs is prepared on a yearly basis. Annual Report on European SMEs 2013 is likely to mark a turning point for the EU SMEs. Reports are available here: Annual report: 2013 [12 MB] ; 2012 [3 MB] Database for the Annual report: 2013 [5 MB] Forecast methodology: 2013 [364 KB] SBA fact sheets The SBA fact sheets assess progress in implementation of the Small Business Act at national level. Policy Studies.