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  • New call for the Adeuropa GESTIDI program

    The last call for the R+D+i Managers program in Castilla y León, GESTIDI< /a>, managed by the Adeuropa foundation. This program is aimed at training graduates in R+D+i management tasks through training scholarships and short stays in companies. The program seeks to train companies in the region and promote their involvement in R+D+i projects through…

  • things of europe

    This is the second time I’ve come to Donosti to attend a summer course offered by the University of the Basque Country. Speakers were Benita Ferrero-Waldner and Michel Camdessus, Araceli Mangas, Francesc Morata, Daniel Innerarity, Josep Borell, Cristobal Montoro, Mario Fernández, Eduardo Rojo, Victor Renem José Manuel González Páramo, Julio Pérez Díaz, Lluis Bassetz, and…

  • London 2012: Would they be “the Regeneration Games”?

    David Hill writes on The Guardian about the debate erupted as London succeeded on the bid for the 2012 Olympics. “Will East Londoners be winners?” he asks, or in other words, How can we make the most of such a big world-scale event in order to meet the need of regeneration of East London? How…

  • Creative Industries and urban regeneration. Case study: The Old Truman Brewery in London

    Introduction Promoting a Sustainable Economy, in terms of cities or regions able to spur economic dynamism and create jobs implies from a public sector policy perspective building a tight network of different initiatives. One of them, with an outstanding importance for the past decade has been the strong support of the so-called “creative industries”, recognized…

  • Hacia una estrategia de Turismo Urbano Sostenible

    Las ciudades son desde hace tiempo un  producto en venta y compiten por atraer consumidores -turistas- y su capacidad de compra o gasto en definitiva. Así, existe en este momento un amplio reconocimiento de los desequilibrios que un turismo no-sostenible puede generar, tanto desde el punto de vista social y cultural como ambiental. Así es…

  • Creative urban sustainability

    The International University of Andalusia (UNIA) has organized a summer course entitled Creative urban sustainability of 13 to September 17 in Seville. The direction of the course is the responsibility of Ecosistema Urbano, who have thought that I have two hours to speak in one of the sessions. The presentation of the course goes like…

  • Tecnalia, an exercise in responsibility

    The process of merging eight of the main Basque technology centers around a single legal form is practically nearing completion. If the tribal and provincial struggles derived from the complex institutional framework of the Basque Country do not end up ruining it, in a few weeks we will see staged in a solemn act the…

  • New competitive paradigm based on innovation

    Innovation is one of those “words” that fills the mouth of today’s economists, advisers and politicians. It seems that innovation is the key to get out of the crisis, to create employment and, ultimately, the golden rule to save our future. For this reason, those of us who think that it continues to be a…

  • learn to undertake

    Being a solo entrepreneur in a growing world global, specialized and technologically advanced is extremely difficult. For this reason, support and accompaniment programs for the entrepreneur are increasingly necessary. In Spain, there are many public programs to support business creation, but it lacks networks and platforms where entrepreneurs help each other. The entrepreneur wants to…

  • Basque Country 2020-2030. Towards the knowledge and innovation economy

    The biggest challenge on the horizon 2020-2030 is the financial sustainability of the welfare state, especially of the three pillars most directly affected by the process of sharp aging of the population in our country; pensions, health and social policies. A necessary condition, although not a sufficient one, to ensure this sustainability will be having…