“For you, is innovation something positive or negative?” It is the first of 40 questions that Innovation Foundation Cotec has done to 2,404 Spaniards between 18 and 65 years old. Although the response obtained is positive —a 73% of the population—, confidence in the digital transition falls 16 points in just two years. At the presentation in Madrid of the III Survey of social perception of innovation in Spain, held this Thursday, the speakers have reiterated that vulnerable groups are the most concerned about technological change. In the segment of people without education, distrust in the technological revolution has increased by 32% while in the segment of entrepreneurs, doctorates and other professionals, it has only increased by 8%. Jorge Barrero, general director of Cotec, believes that this increase is due to a lack of information. “At other times in history, utopia has dominated the vision of the future. Today, dystopias dominate and it has to do with the complex moment of transformation that we are experiencing,” he adds.
