Half of the Valencian population considers themselves capable of starting a business

Professors José María Gómez Gras and Ignacio Mira, from the Miguel Hernández University (UMH) presented this Thursday a preview of the main indicators in the Valencian Community, related to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) document on the entrepreneurial phenomenon.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
26 September 2022 Monday 00:53
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Half of the Valencian population considers themselves capable of starting a business

Professors José María Gómez Gras and Ignacio Mira, from the Miguel Hernández University (UMH) presented this Thursday a preview of the main indicators in the Valencian Community, related to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) document on the entrepreneurial phenomenon. According to their data, half of the population of the Valencian Community considers themselves capable of starting an entrepreneurial initiative and 30% perceive that there are opportunities to do so. However, the fear of failure would be a limitation in just over 50%.

According to these same data, in the Valencian Community it is undertaken in the consumer and service sectors, mostly. The average age at which an initiative is started is around 42 years old and those who do so have some previous experience. Among their most frequent motivations are carving out their own professional future and contributing to society, and they also express a "growing concern for contributing to social ends".

The conclusions have been announced during a conference held in Valencia on how to move towards a more entrepreneurial society and in which the role of businessmen and businesswomen has been analysed.

Everything, within the Entrepreneurship Workshop that the Valencian Association of Entrepreneurs (AVE) and the Foundation for the Ethics of Business and Organizations have held and in which different agents of the ecosystem have participated to explain their experiences such as Margarita Albors (Socialnest) ; Antón Costas (CES Spain); Adriana Domínguez (Adolfo Domínguez Group); Enrique Garcia (University Florida); Javier Jiménez (Shuttle); Eugenio de Miguel (Aquaservice); Andrés Pedreño (Torre Juana OST) and José María Peiró (UV).

"We are convinced that the societies that make the most progress are those in which there are more and better entrepreneurs," said Agnès Noguera, CEO of Libertas 7 and vice president of AVE.

Noguera has highlighted the difficulties and resignations involved in being an entrepreneur because not everything goes to be one, "the entrepreneur must be ethical and exemplary". Thus, he has demanded social recognition of the company's contribution to the construction of society and has called for administrative agility, bureaucratic reduction and "reasonable taxation" for companies.