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Naider

  • The horn of Africa is starving

    In the Horn of Africa, in parts of Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia, tens of thousands of people flee from abject poverty to humanitarian aid camps in Ethiopia and Kenya. The drought, the increase in the price of basic foods and the situation of violence and lack of control in Somalia are causing the greatest misfortune…

  • Open innovation formulas to boost the generation of business opportunities

    Today there is not one only truly innovative company that is not imbricated, fully, in theopen innovation model. The equation is simple: every organization must take advantage of external flows (of knowledge and technology) to be innovative today. The technology company locked in its laboratories has gone down in history. Companies must interact, move, meet…

  • GIS versus SDDR, another environmental confrontation

    The great environmental challenges present us with complex and difficult problems solution. There is usually not a single answer that resolves the issue, rather it is necessary to implement a whole series of actions that make up a mix of solutions to try to tackle the problem. This basic slogan is often repeated, for example,…

  • Book. Death and life of big cities

    It took a long time to be able to read the Spanish reissue of Death and life of large cities, a book that anyone who approaches the thought about the city in recent decades will find themselves referencing in no time. This reissue takes place on the fiftieth anniversary of the publication in 1961 of…

  • The challenge of eco-innovation in Europe

    The Eco-Innovation Observatory , a platform for collecting and analyzing information on eco-innovation from the entire European Union and the main world economic regions, has recently published the document The Eco-Innovation Challenge. Pathways to a resource-efficient Europe. This is the first annual report on the state of eco-innovation in Europe, focusing the analysis on the…

  • Urban projects that fell by the wayside

    A review Quick to some stories I’ve come across in recent weeks about construction projects that fell by the wayside. In March we already commented on a magnificent video about aprojected motorway in London that never came to fruition. Vancouver, for example, made the decision in the 1960s to discard the plans for the extension…

  • Silicon Valley’s appeal lives on

    Spanish companies today have an easier time making the leap to Silicon Valley. The space Spain Tech Center located in the SoMa neighborhood of San Francisco and supported by the< a href="http://www.fundacionbanesto.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Banesto Foundation, the ICEX and Red.es it will help Spanish companies to establish themselves in what is undoubtedly one of the epicenters…

  • Euskadi before the international energy transition. A strategic opportunity

    The world of energy is in full swing. In the coming decades, the Basque Country faces a great crossroads in which great threats appear and in which notable opportunities appear. 87% of the primary energy consumed globally is of fossil origin. The techno-industrial civilization depends on the massive consumption of coal, oil and gas. However,…

  • The paradoxes of the climate change-municipality relationship

    Ago A few weeks ago, the UN-Habitat program made public the Global report on human settlements 2011, dedicated to analyzing the relationship between climate change and the urban world. A fantastic compendium of the different aspects of this relationship, as befits this type of report which, despite its low influence, represents an annual reference and…

  • Trash Track. The long journey of garbage

    The Senseable City Lab at MIT has developed a project to measure the life of small everyday objects after use. The path that many take is surprising, with long journeys, illogical routes and different stages. We are well aware of the value chain in the production of things, but how hidden is the value/disvalue chain…