What is Spain?

Average electricity price per megawatt-hour in Germany is approximately four times the price in Spain or Sweden.

“The average price of a megawatt hour in Germany is like four times the price of that same megawatt hour in Spain or in Sweden.”

About 90% of raw sardine material in Spanish canneries came from Morocco before the export ban.

“I think it was like ninety percent of the raw material in Spanish canneries of sardines was coming from Morocco.”

BIOSPAIN 2026 will host over 800 to 900 Spanish companies, versus roughly 30 Spanish companies present at Bio Europe, illustrating the scale advantage of the domestic conference.

“In by Europe, you'll meet maybe there'll be about 30 eur Spanish companies. In by Spain, you're going to meet over 800 or 900 Spanish companies.”

Neanderthals in Spain ate almost no meat, subsisting on things like mushrooms and moss, demolishing any single-template notion of a 'paleo diet'.

“Neanderthals in Spain almost had no meat in their diet, and they seem to be eating things like mushroom, moss, and so what is the modern paleo diet?”

In the early 2000s, Spanish biotech VC funds were so small that most could not invest more than 1 million euros per deal, a sum described as insufficient to move the needle on any biotech project.

“When I started in this industry in the early 2000s the these the size of the VC funds here was very small and most of them couldn't invest more than a million euros and as we all know a million euros is not enough to make a difference right in the biotech project.”

Neil deGrasse Tyson on European nations actively poaching US scientists with fully funded lab offers.

“I have colleagues who've gotten a phone call from Germany, from France, from Spain saying, 'We've got a fully funded lab here. I know your expertise and I know you're running out of funding. Why don't you bring your whole operation to us?'”

Spain is the only country among those studied with enough operating history to report actual median review times for its expedited FIH pathway, making it a useful benchmark comparator.

“Spain was the only one where somebody gave you, data. It's been going on long enough now they can give you an actual median on how long it's taking.”

Asabis and Verddi are emerging large Spanish biotech VC funds now capable of mobilising significant capital and attracting co-investors, including Spanish government co-investment vehicles.

“Now you start seeing you know Spanish government contributing money to coin investment funds you see large funds like Asabis in Verddi etc. who are who are capable of mobilizing large amounts and getting other VC partners involved.”

Spain had no biotech-specific job fair at all before BIOSPAIN introduced its Talent Day, a notable gap given the size of the country's life sciences sector.

“We started to notice that you know, there wasn't a job fair for the biotech industry in Spain. We just there wasn't one.”