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Naider

  • 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…

  • The Basque administration takes positions in the Basque technological network

    Last Thursday the 8th of July an important agreement was signed in Eibar between the alliance of technology centers IK4 and the Basque Government, through its Minister of Industry. According to the aforementioned agreement, the Basque public administrations (and in particular the Government) would assume control of 25% in the governing bodies of the technological…

  • Chile Earthquake – The Cry of Maule

    Ago Just two years ago I met a Chilean delegation from the Maule region led by my friend Alex Gutiérrez from the Codema business consultancy (www.codema.cl< /a>). The purpose of the visit to the Basque Country and Galicia was to learn about welding, cutting and joining technologies and, in general, the R&D and innovation system…

  • soccer vs. Crisis

    While chatting last week With a professor of Applied Economics from the University of Valladolid, I noticed the resounding statement that if Spain won the World Cup, or at least reached In the final, a giant step would have been taken to forget the much-mentioned crisis that has been engulfing the country for a couple…

  • The science industries collaborate with the ESS-Bilbao

    The Spanish Association of the Science Industry, Ineustar , and the Basque headquarters of the European Spallation Neutron Source (ESS-Bilbao) have signed a collaboration agreement to facilitate interaction between the Spanish industry that works (or wants to work) in the construction of scientific infrastructures and those responsible for ESS-Bilbao. This is good news that shows…

  • unfortunate advertising campaign

    The Basque Government has signed an agreement with the Central Government to promote a cadvertising campaign for tourism in the Basque Country . So far everything normal. One more example of the healthy understanding between the two governments led by the same party. The controversy derives from the motto that the Basque Government adheres to…