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Naider

  • 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:…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Shortage and excess of water

    Water is an essential good for life, but It must be provided in adequate doses. Its scarcity and/or excess can have serious socio-economic and environmental consequences. The excess of water can derive, for example, in the overflow of rivers and floods with very damaging effects. The floods that have occurred in Europe since 1998 have…

  • New challenges for Basque innovation policy

    In the last 30 years, the Basque Country has developed an intense and active industrial policy that has placed the promotion of R+D+I as its main priority. These policies, along with other large-scale social and political initiatives, are the key to explaining its privileged position in terms of per capita income (30% above the EU…

  • Not that way

    Since 2008 GDP in real terms of the European economy , EU 15, has fallen by 2.5%. For three “miserable” points we are sunk in a serious economic crisis that is accompanied by a great social and political crisis. It is clear that economists do not measure well, since we have had to lose a…

  • 2011 Summary of Cities on a Human Scale

    Appropriate days to take stock. Twelve months that they have given to open new topics and insist on others. A time of resistance to the unappealable tide of social networks, which make any attempt to let things rest fleeting. A topic that I have not been able to avoid dealing with lately, almost like nostalgic…