Publication CEPYME500 2017

#DIGITAL ECONOMY SECTOR
Recovery is consolidated
While waiting for the final data on any of the fields of
activity that comprise it, from AMETIC we can ensure
that the Spanish technology sector registered in 2016
a turnover growth, thus chaining the third consecutive
year of progress, a fact that comes to consolidate its
recovery and its contribution to the Spanish economy.
As a good reference of this behaviour, from AMETIC
we can talk in detail about the evolution recorded by
IT companies, which in 2016 reached a turnover of
23.441 billion euros. This meant a 3.3% increase as
compared to the previous year.
Within this context, the positive evolution of IT services,
which grew by 5.2%, and Software, which grew
by 3.6%, contrast with the behaviour of the Hardware
market, which decreased 3.4%.
Going back to the most global scope of the technological
sector, we can find similar behaviour differences
in this last spell, with greater dynamism and
growth regarding digital content companies and more
moderate —but also positive— records in the case of
the electronic industry representatives.
Regarding the employment data, it is worth mentioning
that the technological companies based in our
country have significantly contributed to the generation
of stable and quality employment, not only direct
employment, constituted by professionals who work
in technology companies—about 450,000 professionals
today with registered consolidated growths in the
past years—but also ,and very prominently, to those in
other sectors of activity that are in charge of positions
related to technologies. Their number is currently
estimated to be much higher than a million workers in
our country.
With a universe of companies as dynamic as innovative,
the technology sector concentrates more than 30% of
private investment in R&D&I. It is has a greater capacity
to induce the growth of the Spanish economy, since
it is essential for the digital transformation of the rest
of sectors. Technologies constitute an essential tool in
this convergence towards digital economy and, from
AMETIC, we have the honour to represent a key sector
for employment and competitiveness, with a significant
impact on national GDP, while offering very positive
outsourcing possibilities for other productive sectors.
Their transversality derives in the digitalization of business
processes and even services and products.
This sector represented by AMETIC brings together
a group of companies that constitutes a real lever for
sustainable economic development, with such positive
contributions as facilitating the increase of competitiveness
of other sectors, generate quality employment,
help improve our export rate and increase the value our
country and our industry.
With these tools, from AMETIC we work to arrange a
country strategy in the digital field, with a wide consensus
among all social agents. This strategy should
overfly political conjunctures and give us the necessary
momentum to reach the leading group of countries that
have decidedly bet on digital economy and have managed
to bring very positive results to their economies.
In view of these data, from AMETIC we can affirm that
the recovery of the technology sector is a fact and
that positive numbers are repeating year after year.
The 2017 outlook is also promising. In this bullish
economic context, the technology sector becomes a
great generator of employment and wealth again.
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