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  • Finland was also in crisis

    It is in difficult times that true nature is seen of each person… phrase that could also be applied to our governments. Thinking about the adjustments in R&D and innovation made by the Government, I remembered an article that I published three years ago, when the crisis was still only a mirage in Spain. Sauna…

  • Scientific communication recipes

    Knowledge, as a volatile, intangible and global element, does not understand borders. In the business generated around it, there are a multitude of agents of different natures and origins, a global board in which trends are outlined, but not norms and through which to move, it is necessary to do so decisively and without fear…

  • Detroit in demolition

    A graphic image of what is happening in Detroit. In red, the points of the city in which licenses for building demolitions have been approved, compared to the licenses granted for new buildings (in blue). The demolition has been an option, at least there. According to the articleWith so much space, so few options —…

  • Entrepreneurs and technology centers, factors of a formula to be calculated

    Draw a technology center on a blank piece of paper. You have a minute. How is the result? Many of you will draw a building, a laboratory, some offices… some, perhaps, will sketch a group of people. The question is not trivial: what exactly is a technology center? Some of us, who all see it…

  • Cut back to invest generously in our future

    According to INE data, spending on R&D financed by public administrations in Spain has gone from growing well above what the economy did before the crisis (seven percentage points more than nominal GDP in 2007), to being clearly below it in 2010 (last available data) and with prospects that the trend will go even worse…

  • Close Garoña

    The Minister of Industry, Jose Manuel Soria, has confirmed in the Congress of the Popular Party held in Seville the will of the Government to revoke the decision to close the Garoña nuclear power plant in 2013, adopted in the last legislature by the Socialist Government and endorsed by the previous Parliament. The plant is…

  • A chance to protest

    First it was the majority Basque unions that took the step , eager to always mark their own path of response. Then the two large class unions with representation in the whole of Spain were also encouraged. They have been joined by an endless number of social organizations and also some minority left-wing parties. The…

  • Pastoral Capitalism. How and why companies fled the cities

    In a previous post I reviewed the main ones background aspects of the book Pastoral capitalism. A History of Suburban Corporate Landscapes, by Louise A. Mozingo, but it was left on the way to go into each of the three types of development that the author proposes in a little more detail. CORPORATE CAMPUS The…

  • What is the cost of industrial pollution in Spain?

    According to According to the European Environment Agency, the economic cost of air pollution caused by the main industrial facilities in Europe in 2009 ranges between 102,000 and 169,000 million euros (10,000 facilities accounted for). The reportRevealing the costs of air pollution from industrial facilities in Europe states that, assuming the benefits provided by the…

  • More than biofuels

    The figure of Karmele Llano, a recurring character at this Ateneo, has recently been praised in a nice article by the writer Rosa Montero. The text reviews and values ​​the exceptional career of this Bilbao veterinarian who has been working in the field in Indonesia for almost 10 years. The cultivation of African palm is…