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Innovation and Talent. The Roadmap for Productivity and Progress
EUSTAT’s projections predict very slow growth in the total population and a population pyramid with progressively less weight for people between 16 and 65 years old, who would lose around three percentage points of the total population by 2036. With this population structure, it seems difficult for the Basque economy to continue growing and developing…
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Competitiveness and European Governance
Europe must invest. The Letta and Dragui reports state this in black and white, and important steps are being taken in this direction. However, I am afraid that the main initiatives currently underway reveal important contradictions in European policy. First of all, the European Commission has drawn up and published in January 2025 the ‘Competitiveness…
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Tariffs, barriers, trade war. Worse for everyone..
The fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War triggered the intense process of globalisation that characterised the world economy in the late 20th century and especially in the first quarter of the 21st century, which is now drawing to a close. Trump’s return to power and the implementation of a…
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Innovating to protect the right to housing
Housing has an important social function. It is the physical support for a dignified life and the basis for access to essential public services that guarantee an adequate standard of quality of life. This is recognised in the Housing Law (Law 3/2015, of 18 June), which establishes and regulates the subjective right to legal and…
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Technology parks in transition: Challenges and opportunities
Science and technology parks (STPs) have served to create a high quality business environment, laying the foundations and responding to the location needs of agents (companies, start-ups, technology and research centres and other related agents) that seek to differentiate themselves in the market on the basis of innovation, knowledge, science and technology. In the Basque…
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Talento para un futuro en continua transformación
The major socio-economic forecasting studies recognise that talent will increasingly gain strategic importance as a critical element of competitiveness, innovation and international positioning for companies, countries and regions, as well as for all organisations, both public and private. Talent, although we may not be fully aware of it, is an increasingly scarce commodity in the…
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The secret lies in the industry
The complex situation in Europe coincides in the Basque Country with a large number of leading companies with the capacity to invest. Wherever we look, whether it is the way we move, the way we generate and use energy, or the way we communicate and interact with others, we see the emergence of highly disruptive…
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Climate transition: a game of winners and losers
We need to multiply our commitment to talent and increase investment in R&D and public and private productivity. It will come as no surprise if I tell you that there will be winners and losers in the climate transition; the ecological transition will not be neutral, and although it will undoubtedly generate significant aggregate benefits…
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The Draghi report and the emperor’s clothes
There is no longer any excuse for ignoring the fact that Europe is facing an existential challenge and that, if it does not act, it will hardly be able to preserve its social model and its values. We all know that Europe is not doing well, but until Letta and, more blatantly, Draghi put it…
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Jokin Etxebarria, economist and msc in business & management joins the naider project.
Jokin Etxebarria Alvarez (Gatika, 1992). He graduated in Economics from the Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea and has an MSc in Business & Management from the Aston Business School. He joins the NAIDER project to strengthen the team’s skills in the field of economic analysis and strategic planning. During his career as an analyst, he has participated…