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Naider

  • technology centers. A sector undergoing restructuring. Part I

    Spanish technology centers are undergoing a major restructuring process and what seemed virtually impossible like the res or the processes of mergers and acquisitions of technology centers, It starts to look like something quite common (see here or < a href="http://www.google.es/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&sqi=2&ved=0CFYQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lavanguardia.com%2Feconomia%2F20120514% 2F54292830274%2Fcentros-tecnologicos-fusiones-crecer.html&ei=znDsT53HHYWv8QPSmJTdBQ&usg=AFQjCNG9YUFv4Ee1gYFBSfdXvJFhvu5xkw&sig2=GhBdsCe27a-doajj0kb5uQ" target="_blank">>” rel=”noopener>). Someone could argue that these processes are a direct consequence of…

  • What to expect from the cities of the future?

    Last week I It was time to close the V Course “Cities of the Future: from strategic planning to urban governance” organized by the University of Deusto, the Instituto Tecnológico Superior de Monterrey and Bilbao Metropoli-30. I share here the document to conduct the exhibition, which was focused on three main axes: A few first…

  • Questions and uncertainties

    Reports commissioned by the Bank from Spain to two prestigious consulting companies (Roland Berger and Oliver Wyman) come to say that the Spanish situation is in line with the forecasts made by the IMF and is not as catastrophic as what could be expected based on the latest events. In the worst of the scenarios…

  • 10,000 million for education

    It seems that in Europe we could agree to allocate up to 1% of GDP to a special plan to promote growth. It is undoubtedly a success that Europe is beginning to think about the real economy after a good time speculating on the monetary and financial economy. It is true that the amount sounds…

  • Emerging technologies in urban functioning. Promises and limits for urban sustainability

    The Barcelona Provincial Council has just published a book (< strong>Rethinking urban policies. Notes for the urban agenda ) with the results and content developed in the course Rethinking urban policies 30 years later organized by the Menéndez Pelayo International University Consortium of Barcelona as part of its 2010 Autumn Courses, directed by Josep M….

  • Adaptive urbanism. Rethinking the land dedicated to parking

    It is not easy to access reliable statistics, but anyone who takes a little in-depth look at the city and the land occupation model will suspect that we dedicate a large part of the available land to paving it for a unique and inconstant use to deposit those appliances called cars. As an approximate figure,…

  • Driving eco-innovation through crowdfunding

    In addition to launching popular lawsuits against those responsible for the crisis, crowdfunding platforms (or crowdfunding) serve to promote interesting initiatives in the field of the environment. Reviewing the project portfolio of Kickstarters, one of the best-known platforms with the most content, Innovative projects can be found, in different stages of development, in the field…

  • How can the US Improve its Policy Towards Latin America?

    Despite its many challenges, the Latin America and Caribbean ( LAC) region has advanced and come a long way in recent years. Several of its countries are now middle-high income countries, aspiring to become major international economies. Therefore, the role of the United States in the LAC region has the potential to become that of…

  • Entrepreneur: Better rich than king?

    A few weeks ago, through the Newsletter of < a href="http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eric Ries, I was made aware of the existence of a study of interest to entrepreneurs carried out by e professor Noam Wasserman in his new book “The founder’s dilemmas: anticipating and avoiding the pitafalls that can sink a statue”. This study performs…

  • Urbapps, now what? Contests, hackathons and urban mobile technologies

    I keep counting some things fromUrbApps. I commented a few days ago that the orientation that we wanted to give at the launch wanted to avoid the competitive factor that some of the projects that are a reference for us have and that take the form of a contest. Without ruling out this possibility, which…