{"id":265,"date":"2013-02-26T10:57:19","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T10:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uao.es\/economicas-empresariales\/?p=265"},"modified":"2013-02-26T10:57:19","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T10:57:19","slug":"why-the-spanish-arent-entrepreneurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uao.es\/economicas-empresariales\/2013\/02\/26\/why-the-spanish-arent-entrepreneurs\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Spanish aren\u2019t entrepreneurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-272\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uao.es\/economicas-empresariales\/files\/2013\/02\/Biblioteca-interior1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"262\" \/>Barcelona \u2014 Generation Y in Spain isn\u2019t asking why, they\u2019re just floundering about. Sixty percent of the country\u2019s over-educated lost generation of university and master\u2019s graduates aged 30 and under aren\u2019t getting hired. With around 26 percent unemployment nationwide, these young adults are left to fight over unpaid internships and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oecd.org\/about\/secretary-general\/spainafterthecrisisanewgrowthmodel.htm\" target=\"_blank\">jobs beneath their experience levels<\/a>, just to get something to put on their resume. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD,) 44 percent of the Spanish aged 25 to 29 that actually have jobs are working in ones that require lesser skills than they have. So with no families, no mortgages and little else to lose, why aren\u2019t more of them creating jobs for themselves?<\/p>\n<p>Many say the Spanish are just lazy, but that\u2019s not it. There\u2019s something else, intangible, that\u2019s developed in the culture and history. The children of Spain aren\u2019t raised to follow their dreams. School has become, for the most part, just a place for passing exams, never for debate, discussion or critical thinking. Your <em>curro<\/em>, or job, is to endure from nine to nine, pushing buttons until the next break. A history of civil war and a 39-year dictatorship, followed by a construction boom and crash, to now, where it\u2019s taken for granted that politicians will be corrupt, has led to a nation that\u2019s devoutly proud of being Spanish, but that can\u2019t define what that even means.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the absurdly challenging bureaucracy and the fact that banks aren\u2019t offering loans at all anymore, there\u2019s something stagnant about the government-controlled education system and the culture in general that is keeping <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/spain\/9044897\/Spains-lost-generation-youth-unemployment-surges-above-50-per-cent.html\" target=\"_blank\">the nation\u2019s most book-learned generation <\/a>in history from reaching its potential. SmartPlanet sets out to re-open the discussion of why technically adept young adults are not looking to start their own businesses and why this resistance to altering the status quo has led Spain to be predicted as one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/terms\/p\/piigs.asp\" target=\"_blank\">slowest kids in the PIIGS<\/a> (referring to Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain, those most hit by Eurozone crisis,) who will take the longest to climb out of its own economic free fall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUpon graduation, 70 percent of Spanish people want to work in large companies, while 70 percent of American graduates want to be their own bosses,\u201d writes <a title=\"Juan Angel Fernandez\" href=\"http:\/\/www.actibva.com\/magazine\/mercado-laboral\/espana-no-necesita-minijobs-necesita-5000-steves-jobs-por-juanangelher\" target=\"_blank\">Juan Angel Hernandez<\/a>, in a recent op-ed for a Spanish financial magazine, advocating on behalf of start-ups, as a solution to the crisis. He writes about how the goals of recent grads are either to work for the government or one of Spain\u2019s top ten companies.<\/p>\n<p>So instead of between 50 and 80 percent of recent grads studying for absurdly competitive government job<strong>s<\/strong>, why aren\u2019t they creating their own opportunities? One of the EU\u2019s top MBA programs ESADE set out<strong> <\/strong>to explore that in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esade.edu\/web\/eng\/about-esade\/today\/news\/viewelement\/203041\/1\/the-white-paper-on-entrepreneurship-in-spain,-written-by-esade-and-promoted-by-fundacion-principe-de-girona,-suggests-strategies-to-boost-entrepreneurship-in-spain\" target=\"_blank\">their White Paper on Entrepreneurship in Spain<\/a>. Since entrepreneurship still isn\u2019t commonly talked about in Spanish higher education, this paper from 2010 has the most current, in-depth findings. The researchers concluded that start-up values can best be instilled at a young age and the education system is not up to the task. It states that: \u201cEntrepreneurship can be learnt at school and should be actively promoted so that young Spaniards can develop skills such as independence, self-confidence and decision-making in situations of risk.\u201d The researchers came to the conclusion that, \u201cYoung Spanish people don\u2019t feel they have been taught how to be entrepreneurs, which is why teachers need to have the relevant tools and materials to teach business acumen and initiative, whilst also fostering their students\u2019 interaction with local entrepreneurs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Blaming the education system \u2014 which only maybe changes when a new political party takes power every eight years \u2014 isn\u2019t a new theme. This isn\u2019t a nation where kids are asked what they want to be when they grow up. \u201cIn high school and university, no one has ever asked them what their motivation is \u2014 the most important part\u201d of starting your own business, says Eva Snijders, entrepreneur and founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quimicavisual.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Barcelona-based start-up Quimica Visual Storytelling<\/a>, which helps companies internally innovate in times of crisis and transition.<strong> <\/strong>She says, \u201cPeople here concentrate on whether it\u2019s difficult to build a business and why it takes time and money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rosaura Alastruey, founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.proyectostic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">ProyectosTIC, hosts motivational workshops<\/a> for both the employed and unemployed. She says, \u201c<em>Un emprendedor es un bicho raro<\/em>,\u201d which translates to \u201can entrepreneur is a rare bug,\u201d or a freak or oddball. In Spain, \u201cJobs are to subsist,\u201d she told SP recently. There\u2019s no need to like what you do, you just need to have a job.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that you only look to start a company when it\u2019s the last thing left to try. Alastruey says, \u201cI have students: \u2018After a year or two years unemployed, now I want to open a business.\u2019 It\u2019s the last option.\u201d The ESADE white paper states that four out of ten Spanish entrepreneurs act out of necessity, which isn\u2019t exactly the sort of drive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartplanet.com\/blog\/global-observer\/in-madrid-a-new-meaning-for-female-tech-support\/4724\" target=\"_blank\">most VCs and business angels are looking for<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When asked where the youth of Spain is being directed away from entrepreneurship, Alastruey quickly repeats the mantra: \u201cThe schools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Folks in their twenties and thirties make up the first generation after the dictatorship of General Franco. \u201cThis is the generation where the parents didn\u2019t have anything, so their kids have everything, not learning that everything has a cost.\u201d The sons and daughters of the post-Franco world aren\u2019t living to make ends meet, but are simply waiting for their ideal job or are<em> opositando<\/em>, the truly Spanish phenomenon of studying for the highly competitive civil service exams. Many, on their parents\u2019 dime, study nine hours a day, six days a week for these exams, for one to five years at a time, while some of these jobs-for-life can see 1,000 applicants for only three spots.<\/p>\n<p>As one entrepreneur at a networking event recently said, \u201cYou\u2019re 23 years old with your whole life ahead of you and all you can dream of is to be a public servant?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last year, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartplanet.com\/blog\/global-observer\/spanish-masters-of-the-entrepreneurial-universe\/7605?tag=search-river\" target=\"_blank\">SP interviewed Complutense University\u2019s tiny MBA in Entrepreneurship<\/a>, which was developed after realizing that the university was actually uninspiring their students. \u201cWe realized that the students\u2019 entrepreneurial behavior was much higher when they started [their bachelor&#8217;s] than when they finished,\u201d said one of the program heads, during the SP interview. The students were \u201cmore likely to start a company when they started university. What we discovered was that the university was deterring them from starting their own business.\u201d Moreover, more than half of Complutense\u2019s graduates intended to study for the civil service exams.<\/p>\n<p>The don\u2019t-take-risks mentality comes down from their parents, who, more often than not, <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.uah.es\/iaes\/publicaciones\/DT_06_10_ing.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">hate their jobs,<\/a> but continue to cling to them. Someone who has been working for the same company for 15 years will, if they lose their jobs, receive a tax-free lump-sum check for two years\u2019 pay. However, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartplanet.com\/blog\/global-observer\/spanish-labor-reform-may-cost-more-jobs\/4433?tag=search-river%20\" target=\"_blank\">since last year\u2019s new labor reform act<\/a>, the next generation of workers may not have the same access to these severance payouts. Plus, many companies are in the practice of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cadenaser.com\/espana\/articulo\/numero-ceoe-arturo-fernandez-paga-parte-sueldo-empleados-negro\/csrcsrpor\/20130211csrcsrnac_3\/Tes\" target=\"_blank\">paying part of the salary under the table<\/a>, which means that is discounted from the total paid if the job is lost. In 2010, 19 percent more Spanish companies closed than were opened, giving everyone reason to be more nervous about their job stability.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, even in time<strong>s<\/strong> of economic boom, the Spanish, in particular, fear failure. Like Hawthorne\u2019s scarlet letter, in Spain, you get branded with an \u201cX\u201d if you fail, and you never try again. There is no culture of \u201cif you fail, try, try again\u201d or of learning from your mistakes. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartplanet.com\/blog\/global-observer\/your-entire-genome-in-just-three-days\/5827\" target=\"_blank\">As Enrique Samper, founder of NIMGenetics, told SP last year<\/a>, \u201cThere\u2019s something in Spain that\u2019s risk adverse,\u201d Samper says. \u201cWe are not used to debating, having open discussions in general. This is all flipped in the entrepreneurial community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In this country, a common cliche is \u201c<em>En el pais de los ciegos, el tuerto es el rey<\/em>,\u201d which translates to \u201cIn the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.\u201d It may be a socialist society, but that hasn\u2019t fostered the idea of the united cause here. When politicians are corrupt, most of the people aren\u2019t up in arms, but tolerant, saying they\u2019d do the same thing if they were in that situation. It\u2019s not about keeping up with the Joneses here, it\u2019s about getting more out of the government or any other situation than anyone else does.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-268\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uao.es\/economicas-empresariales\/files\/2013\/02\/Cuadro-interior.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"258\" \/>Spanish history and culture don\u2019t<strong> <\/strong>teach the philosophy of success by hard work and risk-taking, but to have respect for those that have gained success through acting craftily and cunningly. Spain\u2019s most beloved book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spainthenandnow.com\/spanish-literature\/lazarillo-de-tormes-summary\/default_101.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes and his Fortunes and Adversaries<\/em><\/a> tells the story of an extremely poor child Lazaro who is hired as the servant of a cruel blind man. For the sake of survival, innocent Lazaro grows into a cunning young man who learns to cheat the cheaters.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>In one tale, this Spanish literary hero is eating grapes with the blind man. They decide to share, each eating one at a time. Soon, the old man starts taking two. Lazaro then begins to eat them three at a time. When the grapes are finished, the old man calls him on being a cheater, to which Lazaro asks him why. The old man essentially says, \u201cIf I cheat and you don\u2019t say anything, I assume you\u2019re cheating too. We all try to fool each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Almost five hundred years later, Lazaro\u2019s tale still paints a perfect picture of Spanish society. On January 31, Spanish newspaper <em>El Pais<\/em> raised allegations of corruption against the top members of the ruling Popular Party, including Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, for allegedly not declaring hundreds of thousands of euros in income. PP has yet to fully address the issue and there is no real talk of the party leaders stepping down any time soon. This drives home the point that Spain remains a pessimistic country that doesn\u2019t believe in opportunities, but accepts or even praises corruption and underhandedness.<\/p>\n<p>The unemployed in Spain, with impossible-to-replace jobs like architects, aren\u2019t taking advantage of their opportunities either. Here, if you are receiving <em>paro<\/em> \u2014 unemployment benefits \u2014 you have the option of <em>capitalizacion<\/em>, which allows you to write a detailed business plan and, if approved, you may receive around 80 percent of your two years of benefits upfront to invest into your own small business. This is one of the few situations where the government is actually betting on start-ups, but the folks aren\u2019t buying.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, SP attended a free class on how to start your own business, offered by the Community of Madrid, the province that is mostly made up of the capital. It was a full classroom of about 40 individuals, no one under 40, all looking to create clothing shops, convenience stores, or <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spanishdict.com\/translate\/locutorio\" target=\"_blank\">locutorios<\/a><\/em>. Not a single person spoke of e-commerce, technology, or something unique. The only ideas that came up of financing those small businesses were the banks \u2014 virtually impossible in Spain right now \u2014 and family and inheritance. Up until the crisis, this country\u2019s real estate boom was based on parents co-signing their kids\u2019 zero-percent-down mortgages. Now, the banks are foreclosing on that kid\u2019s house, that parent\u2019s house, and still expecting the both<strong> <\/strong>to pay. No fiscal lessons are being learned from the crisis and certainly no one seems to be getting more creative because of it.<\/p>\n<p>ESADE\u2019s white paper also includes the fact that, while five percent of the Spanish population are small business owners, less than half of these \u201cindependent companies\u201d has two or more employees. Only a mere ten percent, or five out of every thousand small businesses, has ten or more employees. This goes to show how many of the Spanish do share a desire with most cultures to be their own bosses, but that it stops there. There are, of course, freelancers, particularly in the architecture industry and others impossibly hit by the crisis, who, following their two years of government-funded unemployment, try to outsource themselves to any job they can get. And there are the shopkeepers. But the majority of these people aren\u2019t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartplanet.com\/blog\/global-observer\/spanish-clothing-emperor-zips-to-third-richest-man-in-the-world\/6880?tag=search-river\" target=\"_blank\">Zara\u2019s Amancio Ortega<\/a>, who went from owning one clothing shop 40 years ago to being one of the five richest men in the world,<strong> <\/strong>but rather they usually only open just one shop or bar, as part of creating a legacy to pass down to their children. They rarely think of opening an online store, which is a much lower-risk investment, and they don\u2019t consider whether that\u2019s what their children would like to do anyway.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>In fact, according to the 2012 report by <a href=\"http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/enterprise\/policies\/sme\/facts-figures-analysis\/performance-review\/index_en.htm\" target=\"_blank\">European Commission\u2019s Eurostat, Spanish SMBs score average or below average<\/a> against other EU member states on their ten points of evaluating small businesses, with the exception of Spain doing above average on \u201cThinking small first.\u201d Spain scores well below the EU average on entrepreneurship, access to finance, state aid and public procurement, and internationalization. It just goes to show that Spain\u2019s small businesses may be good at thinking independently, but only if small and local.<\/p>\n<p>To compound the country\u2019s economic problems even more, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Europe\/Eurozone-crisis-will-Spain-s-youth-exodus-weaken-economy\" target=\"_blank\">with fewer job prospects at lower salaries<\/a> at home, Spanish university grads are looking off the peninsula, causing a brain drain that could be irreparable if and when their home economy bounces back. The Spanish National Statistics Institute revealed last year that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Europe\/Eurozone-crisis-will-Spain-s-youth-exodus-weaken-economy\" target=\"_blank\">twice as many of Spain\u2019s youth are currently emigrating<\/a> than were in 2010. This creates a huge risk for the nation\u2019s future.<\/p>\n<p><em>Castellanos<\/em> are fond of saying <em>poco a poco<\/em> or little by little. In the meantime, SmartPlanet is happy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartplanet.com\/search?q=jennifer+riggins&amp;tag=mantle_skin;content\" target=\"_blank\">to continue to highlight the technology and innovation of the few and the proud here in Spain<\/a>, those still willing to fall on their asses as they go against the grain to start their own businesses.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>By <a title=\"Jennifer Riggins\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smartplanet.com\/search?q=jennifer+riggins\" rel=\"author\" target=\"_blank\">Jennifer Riggins<\/a> From <a title=\"www.smartplanet.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smartplanet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.smartplanet.com\/<\/a><\/div>\n<div>February 18, 2013<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona \u2014 Generation Y in Spain isn\u2019t asking why, they\u2019re just floundering about. 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