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Naider

  • The challenge of eco-innovation in Europe

    The Eco-Innovation Observatory , a platform for collecting and analyzing information on eco-innovation from the entire European Union and the main world economic regions, has recently published the document The Eco-Innovation Challenge. Pathways to a resource-efficient Europe. This is the first annual report on the state of eco-innovation in Europe, focusing the analysis on the…

  • Urban projects that fell by the wayside

    A review Quick to some stories I’ve come across in recent weeks about construction projects that fell by the wayside. In March we already commented on a magnificent video about aprojected motorway in London that never came to fruition. Vancouver, for example, made the decision in the 1960s to discard the plans for the extension…

  • Silicon Valley’s appeal lives on

    Spanish companies today have an easier time making the leap to Silicon Valley. The space Spain Tech Center located in the SoMa neighborhood of San Francisco and supported by the< a href="http://www.fundacionbanesto.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Banesto Foundation, the ICEX and Red.es it will help Spanish companies to establish themselves in what is undoubtedly one of the epicenters…

  • Euskadi before the international energy transition. A strategic opportunity

    The world of energy is in full swing. In the coming decades, the Basque Country faces a great crossroads in which great threats appear and in which notable opportunities appear. 87% of the primary energy consumed globally is of fossil origin. The techno-industrial civilization depends on the massive consumption of coal, oil and gas. However,…

  • The paradoxes of the climate change-municipality relationship

    Ago A few weeks ago, the UN-Habitat program made public the Global report on human settlements 2011, dedicated to analyzing the relationship between climate change and the urban world. A fantastic compendium of the different aspects of this relationship, as befits this type of report which, despite its low influence, represents an annual reference and…

  • Trash Track. The long journey of garbage

    The Senseable City Lab at MIT has developed a project to measure the life of small everyday objects after use. The path that many take is surprising, with long journeys, illogical routes and different stages. We are well aware of the value chain in the production of things, but how hidden is the value/disvalue chain…

  • The hour of non-expansive urbanism

    It is not the first time that I am going to comment on it, but the landscape that we have left in the territory over the years continues to draw attention beyond the Pyrenees. In The waste of infrastructure in Spain, in the foreign media we have already highlighted some examples of reports in different…

  • Building a company: where to start?

    This week we have started a new business project, it is called Mobbitat, and it is currently just a dream in the heads of a few. Where do you start building a business? Business manuals are full of ways to do it: business models, economic-financial plans, process maps… Yes, we all know that, but: how…

  • Objective: attract investment

    How to attract foreign investment to a mature sector like the automotive? This is the question that we were asked at Invest in Spain and that we are trying to answer. The attraction of foreign investment continues to be a powerful vector of growth in Spain today and the objective of Invest in Spain is…

  • Getting to know co-working spaces

    Last week, we were visiting the Hub Madrid and knowing the activities that are carried out there, its work model, its dynamics… Hub Madrid is one of the best-known co-working spaces: an Anglo-Saxon word that refers to the activity of working together with others and that is normally used when we talk about spaces in…