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The Basque Country
Competitiveness Report 2018

2018
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  • Español
  • Euskera
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  1. Front page
  2. Preface
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Executive Summary
  5. 1. Introduction
  6. 2. Final outcomes
  7. 3. Intermediate performance
    1. 3.1. Employment and unemployment
    2. 3.2. Productivity
    3. 3.3. Innovation
    4. 3.4. Exports
    5. 3.5. Summary of intermediate performance indicators
  8. 4. Determinants of competitiveness
    1. 4.1. Firm performance
      1. 4.1.1. Innovation inputs
      2. 4.1.2. Business finance
      3. 4.1.3. Labour costs
      4. 4.1.4. Summary of firm performance indicators
    2. 4.2. Specialisation
      1. 4.2.1. Scientific specialisation
      2. 4.2.2. Technological specialisation
      3. 4.2.3. Economic specialisation
      4. 4.2.4. Summary of specialisation indicators
    3. 4.3. Business environment
  9. 5. Endowments
    1. 5.1. Geographic and demographic structural determining factors
    2. 5.2. Structural determining factors linked to the field of science and technology
    3. 5.3. Structural determining factors linked to the sectoral structure
    4. 5.4. Structural determining factors linked to firm size and openness to foreign trade
    5. 5.5. Structural determining factors linked to governance
    6. 5.6. Summary of structural determining factors
  10. 6. Conclusions
  1. List of tables
  2. List of graphs
  3. List of illustrations, maps and boxes
  4. Glossary of acronyms

List of graphs

  • Graph 1 Variation in final outcome indicators
  • Graph 2 Long-term unemployment rate (%) versus life satisfaction (scale 0–10) (2016)
  • Graph 3 Variation in intermediate performance indicators
  • Graph 4 Apparent productivity per employee (thousand 2015 constant €), 2008–2017
  • Graph 5 PCT patents per million inhabitants and R&D expenditure (% GDP) (average 2012–2015
  • Graph 6 Variation in export value, valued in euros (2007 = 100)
  • Graph 7 Variation in business performance indicators
  • Graph 8 Variation in credit risk rating
  • Graph 9 Variation in labour cost per employee, real productivity, unit labour costs and real unit labour costs
  • Graph 10 Labour cost per employee and productivity (GVA per employee) for the economy of the EU-28 regions as a whole (2016 or closest year)
  • Graph 11 Labour cost per employee and productivity (GVA per employee) for the manufacturing industry in the EU-28 regions (2016 or closest year)
  • Graph 12 Variation in specialisation indicators
  • Graph 13 Map of export clusters
  • Graph 14 Variation in business environment indicators
  • Graph 15 Graph 15 Digital Economy and Society Index, DESI 2017
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