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  • Cut back to invest generously in our future

    According to INE data, spending on R&D financed by public administrations in Spain has gone from growing well above what the economy did before the crisis (seven percentage points more than nominal GDP in 2007), to being clearly below it in 2010 (last available data) and with prospects that the trend will go even worse…

  • Close Garoña

    The Minister of Industry, Jose Manuel Soria, has confirmed in the Congress of the Popular Party held in Seville the will of the Government to revoke the decision to close the Garoña nuclear power plant in 2013, adopted in the last legislature by the Socialist Government and endorsed by the previous Parliament. The plant is…

  • A chance to protest

    First it was the majority Basque unions that took the step , eager to always mark their own path of response. Then the two large class unions with representation in the whole of Spain were also encouraged. They have been joined by an endless number of social organizations and also some minority left-wing parties. The…

  • Pastoral Capitalism. How and why companies fled the cities

    In a previous post I reviewed the main ones background aspects of the book Pastoral capitalism. A History of Suburban Corporate Landscapes, by Louise A. Mozingo, but it was left on the way to go into each of the three types of development that the author proposes in a little more detail. CORPORATE CAMPUS The…

  • What is the cost of industrial pollution in Spain?

    According to According to the European Environment Agency, the economic cost of air pollution caused by the main industrial facilities in Europe in 2009 ranges between 102,000 and 169,000 million euros (10,000 facilities accounted for). The reportRevealing the costs of air pollution from industrial facilities in Europe states that, assuming the benefits provided by the…

  • More than biofuels

    The figure of Karmele Llano, a recurring character at this Ateneo, has recently been praised in a nice article by the writer Rosa Montero. The text reviews and values ​​the exceptional career of this Bilbao veterinarian who has been working in the field in Indonesia for almost 10 years. The cultivation of African palm is…

  • Is it possible to create a startup in a large company?

    I started my professional career working for large companies. All of us who have ever worked in a multinational know what it means. Each process, however simple, involves a myriad of departments. When you work in a multinational, you can’t even update Windows on your computer without having to implement a complex decision-making system. There…

  • Pastoral capitalism. The birth of technology parks

    Things, most of the time, are not just because. But when they have been there, it is always difficult to stop and think about where they come from, why they are like that and how we got there. The same thing happens in urban functioning and the morphology of cities. The city, after all, is…

  • What do we do in the meantime? For an adaptive urbanism

    Via Javier Burón, Res Publica asked me for a contribution to the series of articles they are publishing on different views of the crisis and possible solutions. This is the textthat I wrote, which collects some of the ideas that are taking shape on the blog around the concept of adaptive cities. ———— The process…

  • Sentient City. The future of urban space

    Another reference book if you are into smart cities and collateral issues and don’t know where to start. If a few weeks ago it was the turn, finally, to talk about Everyware, by Adam Greenfield, today is this novelty, published a few months ago by MIT Press and edited by Mark Shepard (I discovered Shepard’s…