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GEM in Action: the Spanish case

GEM in Action: the Spanish case. Dr. Alicia Coduras GEM Spain-Technical Director. How did we developed the Project?.

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GEM in Action: the Spanish case

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  1. GEM in Action: the Spanish case Dr. Alicia Coduras GEM Spain-Technical Director

  2. How did we developed the Project? Since the year 2000, the GEM Spanish National Team funded at the Instituto de Empresa Business School, has developed the Project in an entrepreneurial mode. This meant to state the following objectives and to pursue them: To dominate the methodology and make high quality products to offer to the society To contact with the governmental representatives and policy makers related with the entrepreneurial dynamics in Spain and to “sell” the GEM product to them To contact with the rest of main institutions related with the entrepreneurial activity in our nation and to spread the use of our Reports within this circle: Chambers of Commerce, Business Associations, Trade Unions, Universities, Banks and many other institutions To develop the same at the regional level To make grow the project looking for opportunities to design derived and specific products based in GEM but with special elements To attend and also push the growth of the academic side of the Project GEM National Team and Regional Coordinator

  3. Ensuring the knowledge of the GEM methodology • To read carefully all the documentation since the beginning and update this reading every year • To attend to all the training sessions, although being a veteran team • To be very active in our interaction with our vendor and the regional teams • To prepare materials for the regional teams year by year These actions lead our team to: First internal Workshop in Trujillo, Spain: transmission of the GEM methodological keys to regional teams • Participate in the Research Committee • Participate in the GERA Board • Become part of the Coordination Team and to assume the responsibility of the NES international part

  4. The use of GEM by the governmental institutions • Our team contacted representatives of the Industry Ministry since the beginning • Private meetings were arranged to explain the project, its methodology, usefulness and benefits • Each year they are invited to the Report Launch • Convinced of the quality and utility of our product they use GEM information regularly and our relationship became closer • The SMEs policy director asked for new derived products: in depth analysis of the SMEs growth; in depth sectorial analysis of entrepreneurial activity; in depth analysis of exited businesses, second opportunities and business transmission • We are working for the Industry Ministry for more than 6 years and they use regularly the GEM Reports and ask for these other special products: complementary surveys have been done to attend these requests • GEM is cited in governmental plans and has influenced concrete policies related with entrepreneurship : improvements in labor conditions for autonomous, bureaucracy, digital business constitution, education & training, women and immigrant entrepreneurs and others SpecialGrowth Report Industry Ministry and SMEs Director at GEM 2006 Report Launch

  5. The use of GEM by other institutions • The Spanish Association of Commerce Chambers requests two times per year the GEM assessment for internal periodical meetings to decide the guide lines of their actions: we write summarized diagnostics on special questions made by the council that manages this institution and also write special papers to be published in prestigious journals • Each time is more frequent that members of the GEM teams be requested to make conferences and journeys at universities, talking about the GEM Project in general or about special topics like women, education and training, financing, immigrant entrepreneurship, innovation and others • We also are invited at different Spanish regions the Entrepreneur’s Day, as we are considered principal specialists in entrepreneurship knowledge thanks to the GEM Project diffusion • It is also each time more frequent that members of the GEM teams be requested by press and other media to make interviews related with diverse information provided by GEM, and this occurs the whole year

  6. Making GEM Spain grow • After achieving the use of GEM by the most related ministry with entrepreneurship, we began to explore other possibilities • As a result, the Equity Ministry become interested in developing a special study in gender entrepreneurship to design new measures to improve the equity between men and women activity • Different actions are being developed in the framework of this study: • Journeys on women entrepreneurship • A preliminary Report based in 2005-2009 GEM data • A complementary survey asking more specific questions gender related: our vendor keeps our data bases as panel ones. Interviewed people is requested for permission for further interviews inside the project and this can be used when necessary, for example, to make this study and previously, for the Industry Ministry • A final Report that will influence the equity policies for entrepreneurs • The Regional Workshop of the year 2010, focused on this topic, and to be celebrated in Cádiz in the framework of the official presentation of this study, developed by the National and Andalusian GEM teams Equity Ministry at the IE closing the women entrepreneurship journey 14th December Gender journey at the IE

  7. And…don’t forget the academic part 2008 • Spanish regional teams develop an academic Workshop based on GEM data: • The first was of internal character: since the second, it was opened to the whole international academic sphere and most relevant researchers in our field have been invited to share with us their contributions. • Our regional teams are also entrepreneurial and, although most of teams belong to public universities, they make the same type of actions to see the project grow: look for sponsors, attracting regional governments, media and a long etc. • Inside each team there are persons with technical, political, managerial and other different skills. The key is to profit these abilities where they are more useful and delegate the most adequate person or persons for each objective. CanaryIslands 2009 Cádiz Andalusia NextAppointment: Cádiz GEM & Gender Workshop June 2010

  8. Thanks so much for your attention GEM Spain: 10 years believing in our Project

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