The Spanish government seems willing to encourage foreign investment in R+D. It would not be a bad strategy since the R+D expenditures of Spanish companies is quite low, but experts say Spain must undertake major reforms to attract foreign investment

XAVIER PUJOL GEBELLÍ | DECEMBER 16TH, 2010

Adapt or, as the saying goes, die trying. Spanish universities, pressured by the construction of the joint European higher education system, have no choice but to make important reforms, some of them structural in nature. Teaching practices, whose criteria have been established in the Bologna process, have already started the transformation process with resources that not a few have described as scarce and the difficulties inherent in any period of change. But a modern university that aspires to be competitive must include qualities that go beyond its role in social and territorial cohesion. Research and innovation, in terms of knowledge transfer, are priorities that Europe considers "non-negotiable."

Xavier Pujol Gebellí | June 10, 2010

Although the Macael marble quarries in Spain’s southern Almería province have operated since the time of the Phoenicians, they have had to innovate just like any traditional sector that wishes to remain in the market. In this case, the modernization effort was led by a technology center considered exemplary by the European Commission.

Malén Ruiz de Elvira | 8 june 2010

After two years of advertisements, debates and drafts of the new Science Law, four months of frantic work in the Secretary of Research to finalize a document and repeated statements full of high expectations by the Minister of Science and Innovation Cristina Garmendia - everything has led to a surprising act of political discretion after the draft of the new Law on Science, Technology and Innovation was approved at the meeting of the Council of Ministers on May 7.

Alicia Rivera | 18 may 2010