The Spanish Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

Abstract

This work will attempt to analyse with an exploratory issue the fundamental elements that make up the ecosystem Spanish entrepreneur. In this sense, the work seeks to understand why a manifest desire to undertake is not translated into the business fabric. You try to search for, well, the root of the problem that justifies this low rate of entrepreneurial activity in Spain. In order to address this issue the following specific objectives are contemplated: 1. It analyse the elements of the context that influence when you start an entrepreneurial process, i.e., those aspects that form the fundamental pillars on which the foundations of the entrepreneurial activity set. 2. Based on such pillars, carrying out a comparative analysis of the Spanish entrepreneur context with reference to the countries relatively better positioned. 3. Pointing out the shortcomings derived from the comparative analysis, in order to target measures and/or recommendations, based on interviews with experts who help to overcome them. The rest of the work is structured in the following way. First, the theoretical concepts on which the work is based and which are considered fundamental for the understanding of the same will be introduced. Then, the methodology followed in the research will be presented. Thirdly, on the basis of secondary data extracted from the GEM and the Eurobarometer, among others, as a resource base of reference to compare the Spanish context with other contexts most advanced in terms of entrepreneurship, and conducting interviews with experts, exploratory analysis of the Spanish entrepreneurial ecosystem will be developed. Finally, the conclusions and implications of this work will be presented.