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Naider

  • Philips lands in Castilla y León

    A few weeks ago we were surprised the news of thepurchase of Indal by part of Philips. Since then we have a new multinational corporation in Castilla y León. Will the region play its cards right this time? Surely this move carries certain threats. We know all too well what the distance from decision-making means:…

  • The decision to leave a million dollars on the table

    In relation to start- oops we have everything to learn from Americans, and especially from the San Francisco area. In the video hosted at the following link you can listen to a very interesting interview that Paul Hontz from The Startup Foundry makes Darshan Shankar (co-founder of Flotype). In the interview, the entrepreneur explains why…

  • Fighting the car invasion…in 1896

    I discover a curiosity on the blog The Urban Country. As reflected in the photograph -the cover of the San Francisco Call– in 1896 thousands of protesters -100,000 people, according to the newspaper; that is critical mass– gathered to protest against what, already then , they considered an illegitimate and excessive invasion of an appliance…

  • Get out of the crisis. The Great Reset

    The edition of the latest book by Richard Florida is available in Spanish. The great reset. New ways of living and working to promote prosperityis the embodiment of the author’s vision of the consequences of the current crisis in the reconfiguration of the economic geography in North America mainly. It is, together with the book…

  • 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…