Attached is an invitation to the presentation of the GEM report for the province of Huelva 2023-2024, which analyses the entrepreneurial activity and the context for entrepreneurship in that province. The presentation will take place on:
🗓️ Friday, December 13, 2024,
🕤 at 9:30 a.m.,
📍 in the Plenary Hall, Provincial Council of Huelva, Av. Martín Alonso Pinzón, 9, Huelva
Several members of the Entrepreneurship & Innovation (E&I) Research Group (SEJ-689), of the Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences, University of Seville (FceyeUS), have participated in the preparation of the Report.
This first GEM report prepared on the province of Huelva is an important milestone as it completes the map of provincial GEM reports. It improves the information available on the province and consequently improves that of Andalusia. The Report follows the methodology of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) and is part of the GEM Spain Entrepreneurship Observatory.
The specificity of the economy of Huelva required a report of its own that would reveal the differentiating characteristics of its entrepreneurial process. Thus, idiosyncratic aspects of its population are observed in the identification of opportunities, somewhat more optimistic than in other territorial scenarios, very similar in the perceptions of their capabilities and knowledge, and with some important barriers such as the fear of undertaking higher than that detected in other territories. The qualitative analysis that allows the GEM methodology, through interviews with experts, also collects lights and shadows of the environment of the province that act as contingent factors in entrepreneurial dynamism. The structure of its industrial sector, port infrastructure, renewable energies, tourism and agriculture are favourable cards, but they are limited by deficits related to its services, transport systems and communication technologies that – according to experts – need a clear improvement to overcome a lower evaluation of its environment for entrepreneurship than the average in Andalusia.
The report is an example of the collaboration between researchers from the network of the Observatory of the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem of Andalusia (OEEA) who have formed an expert team led by Professor Francisco Liñán from the University of Seville and by the professor from the University of Huelva, Nuria Toledano, and made up of academics Elena Carvajal Trujillo (UHU), Inmaculada Jaén (USE) and Ana María Domínguez Quintero (USE).
The results of the report will be very useful not only to improve knowledge of the entrepreneurial process in the province of Huelva, but also to evaluate and act on policies related to entrepreneurship and positively influence its future development.
We ask that you spread this invitation among your networks and to anyone who may be interested.
