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Agreement, halfway between the social and the digital
It has been moving around for a while There is a very interesting project that we think may interest more than one of you. Acuerdo (http://acuerdo.us/) is a suggestive business proposal in the world of journalism. It proposes an innovative way of doing quality journalism through new narratives that take advantage of new technologies. The…
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Emissions trading: the changes ahead
There are less than 3 months to go before 2013 begins. A year that will bring important changes to the European Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). Three are the newest elements. First. Imposition of increasingly demanding emission reduction targets for facilities in the affected sectors: power generation; petroleum refining; iron and steel industry; glass; lime;…
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For an open knowledge
The brand new winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Medicine, Randy Scheckman has declared his boycott of the three most prestigious scientific journals: Nature, Cell and Science. Scheckman has stated that his laboratory will no longer submit its articles to these journals (see
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Research and competitiveness. You have to move on in the relationship!
Currently, the main argument to politically defend the investment in science and technology and/or criticizing budget cuts in this area is very direct and easy to understand: investment in research will make our companies more competitive, it will help us get out of the crisis more quickly in which we are and will facilitate the…
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European industrial policy. Prioritize without forgetting where we are
The industrial policy debate is on. Breaking with the tradition of recent times, Europe has set a series of priority areas, on which it will foreseeably focus its main support instruments (See the document “A Stronger European Industry for Growth and Economic Recovery” here). Without waitingBruegel, one of the most prestigious European think tanks in…
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Build an innovative industry based on innovation
The decline of industry in developed countries is not a new trend or a consequence of the crisis. Since the 1970s or 1980s, manufacturing has progressively lost relative weight to the detriment of the services sector (see graph), but it is now that the industry begins to be really active on the political agenda of…
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Eurapp challenge runner-up: Fostering the App economy in Europe through an “entrepreneurs in residence” program
This week I enjoyed the opportunity to meet some of the most brilliant professionals working on the App Economy throughout Europe. Thanks to the Euroapp challenge and the European Commission I traveled to Berlin and presented a proposal for the development of the App Economy in Europe. The proposal, which was selected among 160 proposals…
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The madness of undertaking in electronic commerce
An article by Mauria Finley in Pando Daily said “is it crazy to start an e-commerce company in the age of Amazon?” about the madness, or not, of starting an e-commerce business today in a sector in which there are very well-positioned agents and which is characterized by a fierce price war. The article reveals…
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The sharing economy: Sharing is now business.
The property instinct is very strong in Western culture: we want to have our house, our car, our bicycle, our clothes, our tent… However, this instinct sometimes clashes with the need to manage our resources effectively. The Internet, which has changed the world so much in recent years, may also be changing our habits and…
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The importance of mobile traffic: Baidu buys 91 Wireless for $1.9 billion
Baidu, China’s largest search portal, recently bought the 91 Wireless app store for $1.9 billion from NetDragon WebSoft. The app store reported having had more than 10 billion downloaded apps that it distributes through various tools such as 91 assistant, 91 Launcher and others. If Baidu and Google are the gateways to the Web, what…