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The European E-Business Report 2005 Since 2001, the ARTEPYME II has funded 215 projects. and the number of SMEs that have, so far, participated add up to 29,580, from 40 different sectors, with a total investment of the central administration of, roughly, €60 million. Among the quality control measures that have been implemented, the results from the surveys point out that, after one year of a project having been funded, the number of participating SME’s is multiplied by a factor of 2.7. This leads to the overall conclusion that this programme contributes, roughly, to a yearly increase of something more than 1% of companies incorporating to e-business. 3.5.2 Development of e-business in Spain The national government decided in 2004 to launch an important initiative regarding innovation and the development of the information society in Spain. A lot a work has been developed since, trying to analyze Spain’s relative position within Europe and to design new ways by which to promote innovation and e-business. This effort has led to the creation of the Avanz@ Initiative for the period 2006-2010. The background work was, basically, a diagnosis of the situation of e-business in the country, based on the values of the existing e-Europe 2005 e-business indicators. The overall performance of the country was measured making use of the composite H indicator ("e-Business Indicator"), created as part of the e-Europe 2005 initiative for benchmarking purposes. 107 This composite indicator includes 12 sub-indicators related to the adoption and use of e-business by companies that are described in the following Exhibit. Weights Exhibit 3.5-1: eEurope 2005 e-Business Index for Spain: component indicators 0.10 a1 Use internet in reference year 0.10 a2 Have a website or a homepage Adoption of ICT by companies 0.20 a3 Security facilities used: have used at least two of the above 0.20 a4 Use any computer 0.20 a5 Connects to the internet via broadband 0.20 a6 Use (LAN and (Intranet or Extranet)) in reference year Weights Use of e-business by companies 0.15 b1 Used internet, EDI or other networks, in reference year, for purchases 0.15 b2 Used internet, EDI or other networks, in reference year, for sales 0.15 b3 Have IT systems for orders & purchases which link to any of the following internal IT systems 0.15 b4 Have IT systems for orders & purchases which link to IT systems of suppliers or customers outside the company 0.30 b5 Purpose of the internet (as a customer): banking and financial services 0.10 b6 Have sold to other enterprises via B2B internet market places in reference year At the time when the analysis took place, two full years of statistics were available for most of the countries included in the EU-15. Taking as reference years 2003 and 2004 (which are really 2002 and 2003, due to the delay of Eurostat in relation with the data gathered by the National institutes of Statistics), the following table shows the relative positions, in terms of adoption and use of e-business by companies, of the EU-15 mean and Spain. 107 See the Communication of the Commission to the Council and Parliament in http://europa.eu.int/information_society/eeurope/2002/news_library/documents/benchmarking05_en.pdf 193
The European E-Business Report 2005 The graph shows something interesting: In 2003, Spain was above the EU-15 mean both in adoption and use of e-business by companies. However, in 2004 this situation changed, and the country lagged behind this mean. 108 Exhibit 3.5-2: eEurope e-Business Index for Spain: 2003, 2004 36% 34% 32% EU-15_2004 30% USE 28% 26% EU-15_2003 ES_2003 ES_2004 24% 22% 20% 35% 40% 45% 50% 55% 60% ADOPTION Exhibit 3.5-3: Broadband adoption among firms in EU countries: 2003 – 2004 Change % companies with broadband accesss between 2003 and 2004 23 21 19 17 15 13 11 9 7 5 Greece Ireland UK Italy Portugal Netherlands EU-15 Germany Austria Belgium Spain Finland Sweden Danemark 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 % of companies with broadband access 2004 Further analysis points at the strong and weak points of the Spanish situation. The country is clearly above the mean in broadband access to the internet and in the use of internet based financial services by companies. On the other hand, Spain is clearly below the mean in purchases and sales carried out 108 Editors comment: Interestingly, the results of the e-Business Survey 2005 by e-Business W@tch rather point at a dynamic development of e-business in Spain. Thus, findings are mixed, probably depending on sectors covered and indicators focused on. 194
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