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smart city. Beyond smart energy management and digital technologies
Continue with the theme, after From the sustainable city to the smart city. Don’t lose perspective, a post in which I probably couldn’t clarify too many things. It’s time to talk about the components of a smart city or, better, the components to which it is being associated. Although here each one establishes different classifications…
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Does the automotive sector smile?
“The automotive industry is young” . This claim was made by Michel Freyssenet, director of research at CNRS French in Valladolid on February 15, 2011 at Sustainable mobility and electric vehicle conference in Valladolid. Let’s not frown, the Chinese market is growing at such a rate that in 10 years it has achieved the size…
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From the sustainable city to the smart city. Don’t lose perspective
Smart cities everywhere. Now it’s time to talk about this. Clean slate, that new airs and new generators of discourse around the city arrive. Imaginary dreams of perfect cities in a sea of digital ubiquity where information flows perfectly, citizens connect to urban information flows to operate in real time and the web gives us…
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Summing up the green economy according to UNEP
In the last quarter century the world economy has quadrupled, benefiting millions of people. However, in the same period of time, 60% of the world’s main ecosystem goods and services, on which human survival depends, have been degraded or used in an unsustainable way. One of the latest publications from UNEP, Towards a green economy….
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Looking for an urban model for cities in transition
These transformations are the key to understanding why we need to rethinking the dominant urban model.The question is where to move forward, what is the new urban model to follow. A sustainable urban development goes through some reference criteria. On the one hand, it is necessary for local economic competitiveness policies to be integrated in…
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Entrepreneurs who dare to talk about their failures
Yes, you heard correctly: I said FRA-CA-SO. A taboo word in this country for many entrepreneurs and businessmen. We are already tired of hearing and repeating that one of the keys to success in Silicon Valley is the appreciation of failure as another experience in the life of an entrepreneur, but the reality is that…
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Bacteria also undertake
That slim and slim lady that appears in the photo attached is called Lactobacillus Bifidus, it is a bacterium and comes from a good family, specifically from the Lactobacilli family. “His name sounds familiar to me, but I don’t put a face to it” Well, even if we don’t put a face on it, the…
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Ten points for a “Competitiveness Pact”
More than a year ago, my colleague Mercedes Oleaga and I built a reflection whose essential elements I allow myself to recover now because they seem valid for the “Competitiveness Pact” process that is marking Germany and in the that urges other states of the Union to be involved, including of course Spain. It can…
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The i-CO, a management model applied
The great business schools and the most famous gurus have formidable management manuals that give me great respect and admiration. Many times I have thought that if I had followed them more to the letter, things would have gone better for me and I would have avoided the occasional catastrophe in my life as an…
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In search of early demand
It is known that not only in Spain but also throughout In Europe it is particularly difficult for us to bring technology to market, to do what is called innovation. To me, who on several occasions have been involved in the genesis of some idea and technology, more or less innovative, one aspect in particular…