Reshaping entrepreneurship after a civil war

Catalonia has been one of the most commercialized and industrialized regions of Spain during the twentieth century. Home of the first industrial revolution during the nineteenth century, it started to adopt technologies and organizational structures of the Second Technological Revolution by the end of that period and the first third of the twentieth century. During the period 1890-1935 Catalan industry grew significantly and diversified. Textile still was the most important sector, but at the end of this period it started a process of industrial restructuring. On the other hand, chemistry, metal and construction showed a great dynamism. Some firms were introducing the most innovative advances developed abroad and grew fast.