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Is there money for Internet start-ups in Spain?
It seems so. Or that is what the numbers that it compiles seem to say Loogic in this blog post where he does a great review of The main investment operations in Spanish-speaking start-ups in the last year: 41 operations carried out compared to 37 in 2009 and 47 in 2008 4 total acquisition operations…
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We already have “Cities of Science and Innovation”. And now that?
30 Spanish cities have received today for the first time the distinctive “City of Science and Innovation”, which is recognized by the Ministry of Science and commitment for their important effort and commitment that they have been carrying out with R+D+i and their contribution from the local sphere to the change of production model. More…
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Results of the MIDAC project (collaboration of Naider with the FAEII Dept of the UPV)
Friday, January 14 at 11 in the morning In the Salón de Grados de Sarriko, the main results of the MIDAC project (Integrated Method of Competition Analysis) will be presented, a collaborative project between Naider and the Department of Fundamentals of Economic Analysis II of the UPV/EHU. The event will be presented by Dr. Begoña Ochoa,…
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What content will the Law of Quality and Sustainability of the Urban Environment have?
The Secretary of State for Housing and Urban Actions has < a href="http://www.fomento.es/MFOM/LANG_CASTELLANO/GABINETE_COMUNICACION/OFICINA_DE_PRENSA/NOTICIAS1/2010/Noviembre/101124-02.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced who are working on the elaboration of the Law on Quality and Sustainability of the Urban Environment, scheduled for the coming months. This law, about which not much is known, is in the preliminary draft phase and, in principle, seems…
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IPBES, scientists are sought to understand Biodiversity
Two days before Christmas Eve, theUnited Nations General Assembly put forward, after a year of negotiations, the new Panel of experts for biodiversity and ecosystem services. Of course, he caught us all buying the Christmas tree and with the prawns in hand and the news passed without shame or glory. After the hangover, congratulations and…
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Book. Global urban analysis. A survey of cities in globalization
The birth of the concept of the “global city” suffered from the beginning of a problem of lack of statistical data that really corroborated the hypotheses about the emergence of new nodal spaces of the global economic network located in the cities as new nuclei of economic concentration. It has always been a hypothesis that…
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Mobile applications as a loyalty and marketing tool
I just discovered two interesting mobile applications that demonstrate how technologies how augmented reality and interaction with the visual environment through QR codes are gradually reaching the average mobile user. On the one hand, the innovative advertising campaign of the Nissan Leaf< /a> in which we are invited to hunt Juke cars on the Internet…
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Ghost towns, from Spain to China
We have already talked a lot about ghost cities, sometimes trying to describe the causes and the consequenceson our territory, other times simply documenting some examples. These days a compilation of ghost cities in China has been published, a good photographic catalog of cities (or, better, fictional cities) that are part of the Chinese urban…
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Entrepreneurs 2.0 wanted
‘Here nobody wants to undertake, nobody wants risk. We all want to be civil servants and a job from 9 to 3’. Surely we have all witnessed, or even pronounced, these words at some time. But is this true? Are there a lack of entrepreneurs in Spain? Are there fewer entrepreneurs than in other parts…
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Understanding the agreements of the Cancun climate summit
The expectations placed on theCop Summit Denmark in 2009 (COP15) were very high and their failure called into question the capacity of the multilateral negotiation system sponsored by the United Nations. The international community arrived in the Mexican city with the clear awareness that another failure could definitively derail the multilateral process on climate change….