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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Post-crisis adaptive urbanism. urban gardens
Urban gardens are gaining increasing interest in recent times as a form of citizen occupation in different areas of the city and this was reported by La Vanguardia and El País a few weeks ago in two articles to thank the general disinterest of the traditional media in Spain for urban issues. The fact that…
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Bad news for quality content on the Internet
The news of the Rise in revenue for DemandMedia, best known exponent of Content Farm in the world has surprised many. Not surprisingly, Google had reacted to this threat by integrating algorithms to penalize to these so-called farms. It seems that Google’s attempts to reduce the popularity of DemandMedia’s content have not yielded the expected…