Spain’s new Law on Science, Technology and Innovation, which has been highly criticized by scientists, has finally been passed with broad political support. The law seeks to modernize and boost Spain’s R+D system and includes the creation of a State Research Agency, while not addressing tax and financing issues

STAFF | MARCH 17TH, 2011

The design of new applications based on technological innovation depends on many factors. Among the most important, and with a growing presence in marketing techniques, is the power of persuasion, which delves into the psychology of the consumer looking for the elements that convince them to choose certain products and even ways to change their attitude if not their behavior. This set of techniques has been baptized “captology.”

XAVIER PUJOL GEBELLÍ | OCTOBER 19TH, 2010

The IPA Obstetrics Project, developed by a multidisciplinary team at the Maternal Fetal Medicine Department of the Clinical Institute of Gynecology, Obstetrics and Neonatology (ICGON) and the Information Systems Division of Barcelona’s Hospital Clínic, together with members of the technology partner Accenture, is the winner of the AUSAPE Contest of SOA Initiatives, organized by the VI GT Forum of the Association of SAP Users in Spain (AUSAPE) in Valencia on June 1-2.

29 june 2010

As part of the fifth edition of the Tech Summer Sessions taking place in Barcelona until early July, yesterday, June 15, the two-day-long MIT Conference came to a close. The second day of the meeting consisted of an intense session centered on the major Catalan as well as international technological projects in the fields of energy, water and transport. Apart from these three themes, the protagonist of the day, both in terms of the challenges it presents and its transversal characteristics, was the theme of technological developments in the field of energy. The Catalan Councilor for Innovation, Universities and Business Josep Huguet was in charge of bringing down the curtain on the MIT Conference.

Octavi Planells, Clara Cardona | 16 june de 2010

The business, study and administration of energy, water and transport converge as lines of development these days in Barcelona’s fifth annual Tech Summer Sessions (TSS). As part of these conferences, organized by the Foundation b_TEC, the first of two sessions took place yesterday that make up the MIT Conference, where experts from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the U.S. shared their knowledge on the three main topics of the conference with Catalonia’s researchers and entrepreneurs.

Octavi Planells, Clara Cardona | 15 june de 2010

Catalonia’s Councilor for Innovation, Universities and Enterprise Josep Huguet, accompanied by the Director of the Department of Regional Services for Central Catalonia Josep Palau, recently presented in Manresa the proposed Strategy for the Regional Innovation System in Central Catalonia. Speaking to the economic and social entities in the area, Huguet explained how the strategy examines the innovation system of the five counties that make up Central Catalonia as well as the opportunities and challenges in this field.

14 june 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

On Monday June 14, the 5th edition of the Tech Summer Sessions open with a series of debates and workshops that bring together leading experts in Barcelona, Spain, from the international stage of energy, water and mobility. Since their beginning five years ago, these sessions targeted primarily at professionals have generated knowledge and continued the formulation and construction of the future Diagonal-Besòs Campus.

Clara Cardona | 10 june 2010

Despite the achievements of the last decade in research and innovation policies, Catalonia still has much to do to join the world’s elite in R+D+I. In terms of innovation, the Spanish autonomous community is at the forefront of a disadvantaged OECD country, but it is still below the average for this group of countries. These and many other findings are highlighted in a report that the OECD itself has developed to evaluate the Catalan research and innovation system. The report was presented on Thursday, June 3, at the Capilla of Santa Àgata in Barcelona.

Clara Cardona | 7 june 2010

According to the OECD, governments should not cut R&D expenditures "essential to the country's future."

A. R. | 31 may 2010

Tomorrow, Thursday, May 27 at 19:00, the Museum of Science and Technology (mNACTEC) in Terrassa will hold the third conference of the cycle on “Innovation and Creativity.” The conference “Tecnología textil” (“Textile Technology”) will be led by Sergi Artigas, director of Corporate Development of the LEITAT Technology Center and expert in technology.

26 may 2010

The paradigm of communication has changed dramatically since the revolution in information and communication technology (ICT) in the late twentieth century. And not only has it changed because in the new global ecosystem millions of people have become broadcasters; in the current era of web 2.0, society is changing in all its activities, from education and scientific research to health and social relationships. This is the thesis of the sociologist Manuel Castells, the expert who has best explained the digital revolution and its consequences.

20 may 2010

Cristina Ribas, Information Society

Contract manufacturing is the outsourcing by manufacturers of one or more activities that constitute the value chain of their product which includes: research, design and development, manufacturing, assembly, testing, packaging, sales and marketing. This search engine, provided by Biocat, is a very useful tool to facilitate the search for business opportunities and potential partners between Catalan companies in other industries who want to convert their business and enter the medical technology sector.

The current edition of the Barcelona Digital Global Congress focuses on the future of the Internet. From May 17 to 20, experts from around the world will gather in Barcelona to discuss the technological developments necessary to achieve a digital society. Carles Fradera, director of the Barcelona Digital Technology Center since 2009, is in charge of organizing the Congress for the second consecutive year.

A few days after being appointed as Johhanes Hahn’s Special Advisor, European Commissioner for Regional Policy, Philip McCann, Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Groningen, delivered the inaugural lecture of the TECNIO First Annual Meeting, in Barcelona. McCann focused his speech on technological change and its effects on the new economy and, according to his experience, stressed the importance of concepts such as innovation and knowledge in the tortuous overcoming from the current crisis.

Clara Cardona, Octavi Planells | 5 may 2010