When we talk about the engineer profile it is important is to talk to about the company profile. Why? Because most of you will work for a company, few, but I hope that every day more people, decide to start a business.
Most companies are smalls or medium, and microbusinesses. A microbusiness is a company with less than 10 workers. Another characteristic that we will see is that are concentrated between Madrid and Catalonia.
There are other statistics that prove it, they show that we have 40.6% of companies here in the middle of the country, Madrid; the 31,9% in Catalonia and after, the third falls. The third is Valencia (6.9%), Andalucía (5.2%)… but it is quite far from the two first. Then AETIC confirms the information that Ministry gave us.
Here we have more detailed statistics, but have finally confirmed that Catalonia and Madrid win, and here Andalucía is well above of Valencia.
What happens in Catalonia? This was Spain and this is Catalonia… In Catalonia we have about 40.000 companies in total, from all sectors, from all the activities. And from this companies 21% are from the TIC sector and 78% aren’t from the ICT sector. This is an atypical distribution because they have as companies form the TIC sector in Cataluña is not usually in OCDE countries. Because here the ICT’s sector is so dynamic, so powerful.
Here in Catalonia, the big majority, 97% are SME (small or medium enterprises). SME are small and medium size what, from point of view of the study, means that they have less than 50 workers. Barcelona has a big majority; the 84% are in Barcelona.