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Naider

  • Looking for an urban model for cities in transition

    These transformations are the key to understanding why we need to rethinking the dominant urban model.The question is where to move forward, what is the new urban model to follow. A sustainable urban development goes through some reference criteria. On the one hand, it is necessary for local economic competitiveness policies to be integrated in…

  • Entrepreneurs who dare to talk about their failures

    Yes, you heard correctly: I said FRA-CA-SO. A taboo word in this country for many entrepreneurs and businessmen. We are already tired of hearing and repeating that one of the keys to success in Silicon Valley is the appreciation of failure as another experience in the life of an entrepreneur, but the reality is that…

  • Bacteria also undertake

    That slim and slim lady that appears in the photo attached is called Lactobacillus Bifidus, it is a bacterium and comes from a good family, specifically from the Lactobacilli family. “His name sounds familiar to me, but I don’t put a face to it” Well, even if we don’t put a face on it, the…

  • Ten points for a “Competitiveness Pact”

    More than a year ago, my colleague Mercedes Oleaga and I built a reflection whose essential elements I allow myself to recover now because they seem valid for the “Competitiveness Pact” process that is marking Germany and in the that urges other states of the Union to be involved, including of course Spain. It can…

  • The i-CO, a management model applied

    The great business schools and the most famous gurus have formidable management manuals that give me great respect and admiration. Many times I have thought that if I had followed them more to the letter, things would have gone better for me and I would have avoided the occasional catastrophe in my life as an…

  • In search of early demand

    It is known that not only in Spain but also throughout In Europe it is particularly difficult for us to bring technology to market, to do what is called innovation. To me, who on several occasions have been involved in the genesis of some idea and technology, more or less innovative, one aspect in particular…

  • Reflections of a currela that remains…

    I was about to respond to Carlos’ article with a post Rope on the pension reform. And so I was doing, but as I progressed, I realized that the answer was good enough for a new article. I hope Carlos doesn’t mind. Initially I had thought of this title: “Reflections of a currela who has…

  • A global challenge for an urban world

    Thinking about sustainable cities is actually a global challenge. In Europe, one of the most urbanized continents, around 75% of the population lives in urban areas, and it is expected that by 2020 the figure will increase to 80%. As a consequence, the demand for land in cities and their surroundings is increasing and, accompanied…

  • Night photo of Egypt. The urban bases of a revolution?

    I have already shared the fantastic ones here other timesnight images that can be found by searching the archives of the NASA Earth Observatory. Yesterday I came across this one. Little more to say that the photo does not say: what they always told us, that the Nile made Egyptian civilization possible, was true. The…

  • An untimely, partial and unfair reform

    Workers will have to contribute for 38 and a half years (and no 40) to retire at 65. This agreement has been enough for the two majority unions in the State as a whole to agree with the Government on a reform that is urgent for some but for many others, including myself, untimely and…