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  • Does competitiveness solve market failures?

    Microeconomics Professor Jeffrey Ely from Northwestern University explains two reasons why markets can be inefficient. The first problem we face has to do with incentives. In any transactionbuyers and sellers in any market have incentives to manipulate prices to get a good ask (higher the better) or buy (lower the better) price. The second problem…

  • Deusto gets hooked on industry 4.0

    Laying of the first stone of DeustoFabLab with the presence of the Mayor of Bilbao[ /caption] On March 27, the first stone of the laboratory was laid digital manufacturing Deusto FabLab sponsored by the University of Deusto and the Bizkaia Provincial Council to promote creativity, innovation and design in the development of new products, services…

  • The AVE in times of cholera

    FEDEA has prepared a study on the cost of high-speed rail in Spain and its social profitability. The report has been prepared by Ofelia Betancor (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) and Gerard Llobet (CEMFI). It analyzes the social and financial costs and benefits of high-speed lines currently operating in Spain. The analysis confirms…

  • The earth speaks!

    Actor Edward Norton gives a voice to the land in this saga of videos made by the environmental organization Conservation. The saga is titled Nature is Speaking and celebrities such as Julia Roberts, Harrison ford and Kevin Spacey among others give voice to different parts of the planet to make a criticism and try to…

  • Public commitment to R&D in the Basque Country: Show me the dough!

    In any public policy, the key is not in the discourse, but in the economic resources that are allocated to it. These are the unequivocal proof of the real commitment acquired. The science and technology policy of the Basque Country (PCTI Euskadi 2020. A Smart Specialization strategy) recently approved by the Basque Government deserves a…

  • R&D financing. Loans are not for everything

    A very significant percentage of the annual budgets that the State allocates to the promotion of R&D is channeled through financial aid that the recipient has to repay in one way or another (62.4% in the General State budgets of 2015). Especially in times of crisis, this type of financial instrument generates great controversy. Detractors…

  • R&D financing. Loans are not for everything

    A very significant percentage of the annual budgets that the State allocates to the promotion of R&D is channeled through financial aid that the recipient has to repay in one way or another (62.4% in the General State budgets of 2015). Especially in times of crisis, this type of financial instrument generates great controversy. Detractors…

  • Put it on the ground!

    Keep it in the ground is a campaign promoted by The Guardian which aims to raise awareness among two of the largest international foundations (The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust of Jeremy Farrar and Sir William Castell) to defund and divest all their money from companies dedicated to finding and exploiting…

  • For a secular and rational calendar

    With just over ten days to go before the sweetest festive bridge of the year, factories, schools, companies, universities and shops in the Basque Country and some Autonomous Communities in Spain completely stop for two working days, setting up an unexpected festivity carousel out of nowhere. From March 19 to 22, the country slows down…

  • Euskadi is Wi-Fi

    The telecommunications company Euskaltel has launched the largest Wi-Fi network it operates at the moment in Euskadi. There are no less than 128,000 access points distributed along the streets of the entire geography of the Basque Autonomous Community. Euskaltel calls an electronic device that emits a WiFi network that allows a smartphone or tablet to…