Gipuzkoa has traditionally had a solid entrepreneurial tissue capable of generating economic activity and employment although, in recent years, there have been im-portant breakdowns that are trying to be corrected by encouraging modernisation and improving competitiveness as a means to fomenting the creation of employ-ment.
The small and medium enterprises have been the main protagonists in this im-provement process that, with respect to the management of the Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa, has focused on consolidating a network of Industrialdeak (industrial complexes)- seventeen, located in eleven districts -, that have made it possible to establish more than 500 companies, on promoting industrial land and on incorpo-rating concepts like research, development, innovation or environmental quality into the dynamics of entrepreneurial management.