1. Introducción
Methodology
The Barometer has been conducted jointly by INVEST IN SPAIN and the IESE International Center for Competitiveness (ICC).
This year the areas covered by the Barometer have been extended, aiming to include more aspects that interest foreign investors. Although
this makes a comparison with previous years more complex, especially in certain aspects, in the short term, it serves to provide new
information, which is key to understanding the motivations and concerns of foreign investors in Spain.
The methodology followed, as in previous years, involves asking over 300 foreign companies that operate in Spain to fill out a questionnaire.
The various different areas included in the questionnaire have been grouped under four headings since 2007 in order to ensure continuity:
Overview in Spain, Costs, Infrastructures and Resources and Quality of Life. The average rating for Spain is obtained by calculating the average
of the various ratings obtained in each of these four groups.
1) OVERVIEW IN SPAIN
Labor Market
Regulatory Environment
Market Size
2) COSTS
Costs
Taxation
Finance
3) INFRASTRUCTURES AND RESOURCES
Infrastructures
Human capital
Innovation
4) QUALITY OF LIFE
The questionnaires show the rating that companies award Spain in each area together with the importance they ascribe thereto in order to
reflect what companies are really interested in.
Foreign investors were asked to rate the importance of each area using a score of 1-5 then rate Spain in this respect. Questions where the
answers indicate the biggest gap between importance and the rating awarded by investors have been marked as priority action areas, as it is
understood that Spain is not meeting foreign investors’ expectations in these cases.
Barometer of the Business Climate in Spain, 2010 results
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Barómetro del clima de negocios en España, Resultados 2010
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