ARIE

The levels of spending on R&D must converge with those of benchmark European regions, either through direct spending (public R&D or from the university system) or by facilitating a fiscal and regulatory framework supportive of investment in business R&D, placing special emphasis on reducing barriers to entry for innovation.

It is essential to guarantee the availability of suitable spaces for the different economic activities in a context of decarbonisation and digitalisation, facilitating the reconversion of existing spaces and promoting new ones, while ensuring their sustainability, harmonious spatial distribution and balance with other uses.

In a business scene of small organisations, we must promote formal and informal tools for partnership that help them to overcome entry barriers that hinder internationalisation activities and innovation or provide adequate training for the people who work in them.

The most labour-intensive sectors and, therefore, with a high capacity to generate employment, demand specific attention in order to ensure working conditions that guarantee increases in productivity. Likewise, we must identify new employment-generating sectors and propose proposals for rooting and accelerating their development.