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Countries that invest in R&D are more resilient to the crisis
A very relevant question that we should ask ourselves is what paper Investment in R&D has played a role in the performance of countries in the face of the economic-financial crisis in which Europe has been plunged since 2008. A simple analysis exercise gives us many clues to understand reality. If we choose the EU…
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Software startups in Spain and the job we need
There’s a lot of “buzz” around the word entrepreneurship lately in Spain. With a deeply depressed economy and while more than six million people are slowly being unemployed, entrepreneurship may be one of the ways out, especially for the thousands of graduates, doctorates and highly qualified people who are unemployed. These types of people today…
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Shortage and excess of water
Water is an essential good for life, but It must be provided in adequate doses. Its scarcity and/or excess can have serious socio-economic and environmental consequences. The excess of water can derive, for example, in the overflow of rivers and floods with very damaging effects. The floods that have occurred in Europe since 1998 have…
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New challenges for Basque innovation policy
In the last 30 years, the Basque Country has developed an intense and active industrial policy that has placed the promotion of R+D+I as its main priority. These policies, along with other large-scale social and political initiatives, are the key to explaining its privileged position in terms of per capita income (30% above the EU…
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Not that way
Since 2008 GDP in real terms of the European economy , EU 15, has fallen by 2.5%. For three “miserable” points we are sunk in a serious economic crisis that is accompanied by a great social and political crisis. It is clear that economists do not measure well, since we have had to lose a…
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2011 Summary of Cities on a Human Scale
Appropriate days to take stock. Twelve months that they have given to open new topics and insist on others. A time of resistance to the unappealable tide of social networks, which make any attempt to let things rest fleeting. A topic that I have not been able to avoid dealing with lately, almost like nostalgic…
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Idea for Euskadi #20
The activist and veterinarian fromInternational Animal Rescue – Indonesia, Karmele Llano sends us the following idea.Karmele has spent more than 10 years in Indonesia fighting for animal rights, for the protection of the last orangutans on the planet -and for other lesser-known species-, but also fighting against the irrational deforestation of primary forest that is…
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Idea for the Basque Country #19
IDEA FOR EUSKADI #19 for a Letter of Basque Citizenship by Carlos Cuerda The permanent evolution of a society requires establishing and universalizing within it a series of principles, rights and citizen values about which neither the Statute nor the Constitution say anything. And it is here where in the Basque Country so much remains…
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21 – O Ideas for Euskadi: Towards a Charter of Basque Citizenship
The Statute of Gernika and the Spanish Constitution are, today, the basic rules that sustain the political reality of the Basque Country. They define their powers, their organization model, their bodies of democratic representation and government, their borders and their symbols. All of this is of the utmost importance, without a doubt, for the construction…
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The Spaniards who do not appear on the front pages of the press and who do not open the news
I am 34 years old. I invested the first 26 in training, two careers, one of them abroad, English, French and even a little bit of German, internships and scholarships to complete the training and directly to the job market. Later, the private company, and as a young man wanting to conquer the world, I…