OPEN DATA REUSE IV
1.3 OPEN DATA IN SPAIN
The four sub-sectors with the most impact represent 75 % of the total employees in the sector, and Geographical Information stands out with 30 % of the total. Behind it are, with a similar percentage, Financial, Technical Consulting and Market Research. The rest represent 25 % of the market, all below 10 % (ASEDIE, 2023). Of the total infomediary companies, 68 % have existed for less than 20 years: 32 % for between 11 and 20 years, and 36 % for less than 10. 64 % of them were created more than 10 years ago. The average age of companies is 16 years. In the last year, 40 companies have been created. Publishers is the only subsector where the majority of companies have been active for more than 20 years. At the other extreme are Tourism and Meteorological, of which 100 and 85 % of companies, respectively, are less than 20 years old. The rest of the sub-sectors have between 60 and 80 % of companies that are less than 20 (ASEDIE, 2023). The number of companies detected within the infomediary sector has grown almost 60 % since the beginning of this report in 2013. As of December 2021, the number of infomediary companies identified in Spain is 710. The number of employees of the 542 companies in those for which employee data is available amounts to 22,663, and the net profit of the 506 companies for which results data is available amounts to 181,707,060 euros (ASEDIE, 2023). The autonomous communities that have grown the most since then (proportionally) are Cantabria (400 %), Murcia (300 %) and Extremadura (300 %); and in number, Madrid (83), Andalusia (54) and the Valencian Community (45). The only autonomous community that has decreased is Catalonia, and the only one in which no company has been detected is the autonomous city of Ceuta (ASEDIE, 2023).
The latest edition of the Data Economy Report in the infomediary sector, carried out by ASEDIE, includes results from an analysis of 542 companies that have business models based on data, and shows that the basis of decision- making depends more than ever on information and data and that, sometimes, we are not even aware of this act of digitalisation (ASEDIE, 2023). Advances in artificial intelligence, as well as the Internet of Things, are realities that are evolving at an ever-increasing rate and are causing a transformation in the economic system. Data, its management and its analysis have become the necessary element for business progress, which makes the infomediary sector one of the most influential in our economy (ASEDIE, 2023). This same report highlights that there has been an increase of 12.1 % in the infomediary sector, compared to a national GDP growth of 7.6 % (ASEDIE, 2023). The increase in both the digitalisation of processes and the attention companies give to data quality are recognised as factors that improve expectations for data reuse. So-called “data culture” is progressively growing in Spain, which on the other hand sets a trend in open data management in the EU (ASEDIE, 2023), as described in the previous summary. In Spain, infomediary companies are more active in some regions than others. The sector is represented in all the autonomous communities of the Spanish territory and in the autonomous city of Melilla. The Community of Madrid, with 39 %, is the autonomous community with the most infomediary companies, followed by Catalonia, Andalusia and the Valencian Community, with weights of 13, 11 and 9 % respectively. The rest of the autonomous communities make up the remaining 28 % of infomediary companies (ASEDIE, 2023).
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