With a view to fostering investment, employment, competitiveness and economic growth, the Spanish central government and Spain’s other Public Authorities have developed and consolidated a wide and complete range of aid instruments and incentives, placing special emphasis on fostering indefinite-term employment and on research, development and technological innovation (R&D&I).

Moreover, the fact that Spain is an EU Member State enables potential investors to benefit from European aid programs, which makes investment in Spain even more attractive.

This chapter includes the following topics:

• Training and employment
• R&D
• Renewable energy
• Tourism industry
• Audiovisual industry
• Regional incentives
• SMEs
• Internationalization
• European Union

Prepared by Garrigues

Last updated: 19|07|2010