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Looking for weak points in the cyber-utopia of the Wikileaks era
Wikileaks has opened Pandora’s box, not just state secrets and now also bank secrets, but has opened the door to enthusiastically proclaiming the beginning of a new era of promises of transparency and new citizen powers. Undoubtedly, it is true that it has shown the weaknesses of the system and, above all, the potential it…
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Allegations to the BAIC Project
I allow myself to share with all friends of Ateneo Naider the allegations that I have presented to the City Council of my city in relation to the “Execution Project of the International Center for Congresses, Exhibitions and Performing Arts of Vitoria-Gasteiz”. I think they may be of some interest to all of you. A…
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When Belbin found out who I was
It was a few years ago, in the entrepreneurship program carried out by Team Academy Euskadi ( Tecnalia). Putting it in context: 9 people with different profiles, receive training for a year to create a company together. There, a group of professionals analyzed our team roles trying to draw the outline of the type of…
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Urban reconversion. From shopping center to university center
I read the following in The World: The City Council and the Community of Madrid have found a non-commercial outlet for the more than 11,000 square meters of the Puerta de Toledo Market in the Centro district. After more than a decade in which the Community has unsuccessfully tried to make the space profitable, both…
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Is there money for Internet start-ups in Spain?
It seems so. Or that is what the numbers that it compiles seem to say Loogic in this blog post where he does a great review of The main investment operations in Spanish-speaking start-ups in the last year: 41 operations carried out compared to 37 in 2009 and 47 in 2008 4 total acquisition operations…
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We already have “Cities of Science and Innovation”. And now that?
30 Spanish cities have received today for the first time the distinctive “City of Science and Innovation”, which is recognized by the Ministry of Science and commitment for their important effort and commitment that they have been carrying out with R+D+i and their contribution from the local sphere to the change of production model. More…
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Results of the MIDAC project (collaboration of Naider with the FAEII Dept of the UPV)
Friday, January 14 at 11 in the morning In the Salón de Grados de Sarriko, the main results of the MIDAC project (Integrated Method of Competition Analysis) will be presented, a collaborative project between Naider and the Department of Fundamentals of Economic Analysis II of the UPV/EHU. The event will be presented by Dr. Begoña Ochoa,…
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What content will the Law of Quality and Sustainability of the Urban Environment have?
The Secretary of State for Housing and Urban Actions has < a href="http://www.fomento.es/MFOM/LANG_CASTELLANO/GABINETE_COMUNICACION/OFICINA_DE_PRENSA/NOTICIAS1/2010/Noviembre/101124-02.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced who are working on the elaboration of the Law on Quality and Sustainability of the Urban Environment, scheduled for the coming months. This law, about which not much is known, is in the preliminary draft phase and, in principle, seems…
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IPBES, scientists are sought to understand Biodiversity
Two days before Christmas Eve, theUnited Nations General Assembly put forward, after a year of negotiations, the new Panel of experts for biodiversity and ecosystem services. Of course, he caught us all buying the Christmas tree and with the prawns in hand and the news passed without shame or glory. After the hangover, congratulations and…
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Book. Global urban analysis. A survey of cities in globalization
The birth of the concept of the “global city” suffered from the beginning of a problem of lack of statistical data that really corroborated the hypotheses about the emergence of new nodal spaces of the global economic network located in the cities as new nuclei of economic concentration. It has always been a hypothesis that…