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MAD MAX Spain: A post-cataclysm economy
Recently, speaking with a friend and collaborator, we were discussing the harsh reality of our sector, ICT, in the Spanish market, and how the world of small ICT companies in Spain was progressively deteriorating: extremely low salaries, projects with meager budgets, extremely high customer demands, slow payments … come on, the ideal world. It is…
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Is smart specialization the new path to innovation?
The European Union recommends that regions adopt specialization strategies smart as a way to strengthen global competitiveness and generate quality employment. In a very graphic and simple way, smart specialization does not consist more than in concentrating public and private efforts, resources and capacities in priority economic activities that are chosen based on the critical…
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How to make a mobile marketing strategy
Mobile marketing is not easy. Some companies approach us and ask us what they should do to take advantage of the mobile channel: should we develop a mobile website or an application? What is the difference between native and mobile apps? These are common questions that, of course, need to be answered. However, our answer…
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Towards a global industry-focused innovation ecosystem
Basque science, technology and innovation policy has had an obsession with typifying its innovation system and cataloging its agents and the different plans have been doing so (the PCTI 2015is no exception), describing functions and subsystems and assigning the different institutions and existing public-private organizations to them. From a Cartesian point of view of reality,…
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Investing in biodiversity to generate employment (I)
The 2011 study “The Social Dimension of Environmental Policy” of the Address General Committee for the Environment of the European Commission has investigated the social dimension of biodiversity policy in the EU and in the world. The study considers that employment related to the conservation and sustainable management of biodiversity includes two types of jobs:…
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Innovation is very profitable for companies
Post prepared jointly with Maite Martínez Granado In a study carried out by Naider for the FECYT based on the econometric analysis of the data of 4,776 companies that have been monitored from 2004 to 2008 (PITEC Panel), it is concluded that an increase in investment in innovation in companies Spanish companies raise final sales…
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Finalist taxes to guarantee our future
Decline in government revenue, deficit commitments agreed with the Central Administration and the automatic increase in social spending due to the precariousness of the crisis that is leaving many people unemployed forces a global rethinking of the budgetary policy of all public administrations to balance their accounts. The necessary spending containment policies, the already famous…
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The demographic quagmire and the urgent need to innovate
To maintain quality of life standards What has currently been achieved, the Basque Country and its productive and social fabric are facing a great productivity challenge that is a direct consequence of what I call the “demographic quagmire” that I explain in a simple way below. Since 1980, the population in the Basque Country has…
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Countries that invest in R&D are more resilient to the crisis
A very relevant question that we should ask ourselves is what paper Investment in R&D has played a role in the performance of countries in the face of the economic-financial crisis in which Europe has been plunged since 2008. A simple analysis exercise gives us many clues to understand reality. If we choose the EU…
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Software startups in Spain and the job we need
There’s a lot of “buzz” around the word entrepreneurship lately in Spain. With a deeply depressed economy and while more than six million people are slowly being unemployed, entrepreneurship may be one of the ways out, especially for the thousands of graduates, doctorates and highly qualified people who are unemployed. These types of people today…