Malaga is leaping its way up the ranking of innovative Spanish urban areas, according to an article in the La Opinión news.
The article draws on a tool developed by the Cotec Foundation to score innovation within 59 functional urban areas in the country.
Madrid and Barcelona top the table in Spain’s innovation map, with scores of 8.84 and 8.83 points respectively, followed by Zaragoza (7.44) and Bilbao (7.41). Málaga, for its part, appears in the middle of the ranking, but shows one of the best performance improvements for the 2022-2024 period, where its score increased from 2.79 in 2022 to 4.14 in 2024, surpassing the Spanish median and rising from 33rd to 26th place in the ranking.
This was highlighted by Cotec, who said Málaga’s “greatest strengths lie in the areas of Employment and Technology (a rise of 15 positions since 2022) and Business (with a rise of 9 positions)”.
Why is this of interest to us as a church? We often forget that innovation is one of the signs of our participation in God’s creation of our world. God didn’t just create the world and walk away. On the contrary, he gave us the skills to share in the process of ongoing creation. That is why innovation places such a responsibility on us. We are co-creators, and sharing in his work requires of us that we reflect his loving heart in all that we do.
Read the full article (in Spanish) here.