What is Blockchain? Blockchain is a new type of database that is digital, decentralised, distributed and append only. It is a chain of blocks. Each block containing data, is connected securely, using high end cryptography, with one another in a chronological order. Why is it called Blockchain? In the original Bitcoin paper, the database […]
Francisco Velasco, Director of Strategic Development for KIM and Executive Director of MRI, regularly publishes interesting reflections on our field of activity on his personal page. Below we reproduce one of those articles that you can also read on his website. 82% of companies have suffered a fraud incident in 2016, a seven percentage point […]
Francisco Velasco, Director of Strategic Development for KIM and Executive Director of MRI, regularly publishes interesting reflections on our field of activity on his personal page. Below we reproduce one of those articles you can also read on his website. It is now over 10 years since Sir Ken Robinson´s talk in 2006 where he […]
Francisco Velasco, Director of Strategic Development for KIM and Executive Director of MRI, regularly publishes interesting reflections on our field of activity on his personal page. Below we reproduce one of those articles that you can also read on his website. Public policies on R&D and innovation have proved to make a considerable impact on […]
Francisco Velasco, Director of Strategic Development for KIM and Executive Director of MRI, regularly publishes interesting reflections on our field of activity on his personal page. Below we reproduce one of those articles that you can also read on his website. Since Henry Chesbrough originated the term “Open Innovation” (Chesbrough, 2003), technology transfer has been […]
OPINION The 1992 Olympics opened Barcelona’s doors to the world, but the Mobile World Congress opened them to technology. A month after this macro-event, there is plenty of evidence that innovation has changed the city forever. The latest Mobile World Congress (MWC) really got Barcelona moving for a week: maximum hotel occupancy, new temporary jobs, […]
