This news article was originally written in Spanish. It has been automatically translated for your convenience. Reasonable efforts have been made to provide an accurate translation, however, no automated translation is perfect nor is it intended to replace a human translator. The original article in Spanish can be viewed at La tasa de generación de empleo de los centros tecnológicos fue 7 veces mayor que la media de la economía española, entre 2000 y 2007
The rate of employment of technology centres was 7 times higher than the average of the Spanish economy, between 2000 and 2007
25/02/2009
February 25, 2009
Technology centers generated in the period between 2000 and 2007, a total of 51.303 new jobs, which puts the annual growth rate of employment generated by 26.4%, compared to 3.58% of the average annual growth of the population during the same interval of time. This means that the rate of employment of these centres is seven times higher than the average of the Spanish economy. These data, collected in a study and published by Fedit, shows that for every 23,000 euros increase in their income total, both public and private technological centres create additional employment. "We will focus only on public funding, we conclude that technological centres generate a job for each 2,850 euros of State funding, figure that contrasts with the 25,000 euros of State public investment needed for each new use of the stimulus Plan of employment"recently approved by the Government in the field of technology, which 490 million euros has been earmarked to create 20,000 new direct, indirect and induced jobs, and there is no support to technology centers whose initiativesthey are suffering cutbacks of public support since the year 2007 ", comment from Fedit.
