Research Areas

This report aims to carry out a diagnosis of the Spanish industry to identify strengths and weaknesses, as well as threats and opportunities for industrial sectors in the face of a future framed by three vectors: the risks posed by accelerated globalization; the need to address digital transformation as a lever to gain competitiveness; and the reinforcement of respect for the environment, which requires improving energy efficiency and at the same time provides an opportunity for Spain to invest advantageously in sectors producing renewable energies with new technologies.

Within the framework of the opportunity provided by the European recovery funds associated with the NextGenerationEU, this diagnosis should identify the industrial productive branches in which Spain has competitive advantages in the current international context, the factors that limit its productivity gains and those that can contribute to defining a new growth model which is more typical of an advanced society, in which knowledge-based activities increase in importance.