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  • First results of the Nanomaterials Center

    The Center for Research in Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology < /a>(CINN), which has had its headquarters for a month in the TIC building of the Entrego well (Asturias), is a pioneer facility worldwide that has a large sintering (compaction) furnace (12 meters high by 6 meters wide and 5 meters deep), dedicated to the manufacture of…

  • The Spanish R+D+i system

    The group of experts from the European Commission has delivered to the Minister of Economy and Competitiveness , Luis de Guindos, the conclusions of the report that analyzes the situation of Spanish R&D&I. The main recommendation made by the so-called European Research Area Committee (ERAC) peer review is “increasing the resources available, although this increase…

  • Understanding the US innovation system

    The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation has recently published a report to know and understand the innovation system of the United States of America. The report identifies the general elements that make up a national innovation system, including a description of the innovation triangle that measures firms, legislation, and country innovation and is used to…

  • Research for healthier menus

    EUREST Euskadi and the AZTI-Tecnalia have signed a collaboration agreement for the creation of nutritionally enhanced products to include in their menus, exportable for the entire company nationwide. The objective of this collaboration is to design and reformulate some of the elements that are part of the composition of the menus that are prepared for…

  • If you are sensitive, your brain is more reactive

    Do you often cry watching your children’s movies? Do you tend to quickly share on Social Networks any photo that moves you? If so, and according to a group of scientists, perhaps you are among the 20% of the population genetically predisposed to empathy, that cognitive ability that allows us to perceive what another individual…

  • More than €60M for business R&D projects

    < /a> The Board of Directors of the Center for Industrial Technological Development (CDTI) has approved 144 new R+D+i projects with a total budget of 80.57 million euros. The CDTI will contribute 62.11 million euros, thus promoting business R+D+i and stimulating the creation of technology-based companies. Of the approved projects, 101 correspond to the second call…

  • Less dependence thanks to ICT

    Researchers from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) participate in the European project PERSSILAA that will develop and validate a new model of services for the detection and prevention of frailty in the elderly from the functional, cognitive and nutritional point of view. The project PERSIILAA, PERsonalised ICT Supported Service for Independent Living and Active…

  • Competitive intelligence: key to success

    Juan Carlos Aldasoro Alustiza has a PhD in Sociology from the UPV/EHU, and in Market Research and Techniques from the UOC, he has presented the thesis “Analysis of the current situation and future prospects for the implementation of competitive intelligence systems in Basque industrial SMEs” at the San Sebastián Polytechnic School, concluding that the competitive…

  • smart Basque Country

    The Basque Institute of Logistics and Sustainable Mobility-Mugikortasun Iraunkorra ta Logistikako Euskal Erakundea (IVL-LEE ) has subscribed with Ekoiru Consulting its adhesion to ‘Conpy Basque’, a platform that has more of about twenty Basque companies committed to the project “Euskadi on the way to the smart city / Euskadi Hiri Adimendunerako Bidea”. This consortium will…

  • Financing for start-ups with projection

    The ‘startup’ Boletus, which aims to boost traditional commerce and hospitality through a free mobile application, has just completed its first round of financing for an amount of 450,000 euros. The operation, advised by the M&A department of the Firm of lawyers Lawesome Legal Services, has been carried out in two phases and involves assessing…