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  • Climate change policies and strategies in Vitoria-Gasteiz

    The Next June 3 in Vitoria-Gasteiz we will have the opportunity to learn about the policies and strategies that are being deployed around climate change in Europe, Spain and the Basque Country. These are the Conferences on Climate Change. Administrations, Citizenship and Companies: Shared Responsibility, where a representative of the EU will intervene, among others;…

  • The challenge of the cities of the future. Agenda 2030

    Citizen Agenda 2030 for Science and Innovation is a social outreach action recently launched by the Ministry of Science and Innovation href=” and the http:/ href=” /www.fecyt.es/” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>FECYT and which includes 14 great challenges that we will face in the coming years and how some personalities from different disciplines propose to face them. One…

  • Dreamlands exhibition. From the urban dream to the theme park

    An exhibition entitledDreamlands. This exhibition tries to identify how international fairs, universal exhibitions and leisure parks have increased their influence on the way in which the city is conceived and designed. From an eminently critical perspective, the exhibition presents three hundred works (films, documents, modern and contemporary art, architecture) that explore the relationship between urban…

  • Urban Biosphere Reserve

    For a few years Brighton & Hoves, a city of renowned track record in environmental matters, aspires to become the first Urban Biosphere Reserve. According to the MAB Program (Man and the Biosphere) of UNESCO, biosphere reserves are places that innovate and demonstrate the relationship between conservation and sustainable development. These sites are under the…

  • The 50 most innovative companies in the world

    Annual BloomergBusinessWeek presents a list of the fifty most innovative companies in the world. Last week they published 2010 list highlighting that, for the first time in history, this list is dominated by foreign companies (from outside the US) and a relentless rise of Asian companies. Asia no longer just copies but innovates and a…

  • Knowledge in the new economic world order

    The concept of economic globalisation has expanded and transformed. Phenomena such as outsourcing production are now just one of the multiple aspects within the framework of possibilities. On the other hand, the rapid pace of technological change demands the constant updating of competitive skills in regions, countries and businesses.  In this context, where can we now find competitive advantage…

  • Business Angels and venture capital funds: how to seduce the investor?

    On March 10, 2010 I attended a conference well interesting titled “Business Angels and venture capital funds: how to seduce the investor?“. This presentation was held within the framework of an event “Salón Mi Empresa S.A.“, in the Palacio de Congresos de Madrid, on March 9 and 10, 2010, “the first large-scale annual event designed…

  • The electric vehicle race in cities

    Which cities are taking the most determined steps to introduce the electric vehicle on your streets? Let’s look at different approaches to public incentivization. On the one hand, London has decided to be the European capital of electric vehicles in a few years, exactly by 2015, through a massive investment from the transport authority materialized…

  • Electric vehicle charging with clean energy sources

    A few days ago we reviewed the different implications of urban design and industrial development related to the electric car from the urban perspective and especially in relation to < a href="https://naider.com/blog/manu-fernandez/the-future-of-cities-car-charging-systems-el%C3%A9ctrico" target="_blank" rel ="noopener">recharge systems. And it is that in the race for the electric vehicle one of the main weak points of the…

  • Those of us who never had a place near the window

    In a few weeks I have a dinner for former co-workers that we have titled “dinner for those who never had a place near the window”. A few years ago we all worked in an organization dedicated to the consulting business that had a curious system of space distribution: the more important the position of…