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Innovation and productivity
Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics I was struck by an article by Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, which appeared in the New...


Space missions - New models
Image: Pixabay Space exploration has been a dream of mankind since long before Jules Verne wrote From the Earth to the Moon in 1865, or...


3-D Printing
Source: PX 3-D printing or additive manufacturing, its technical name, has been one of the most promising technologies since the 1980s...


What can I do about Inflation?
Image: Advantus Media Inc. and QuoteInspector.com La respuesta inmediata es "nada". La inflación es una poderosa fuerza económica que es...


Jean Tirole
Photographer: Stephen Jaffee | Image property of: IMF Photograph Jean Tirole (Troyes, France, 1953) graduated as a civil engineer in 1976...


Should I be investing in Bitcoin?
Image Source: Moneycontrol It’s a great question, although revealing an answer depends more upon other factors – mostly surrounding you...


The Inclusive Green Economy
Image: David de la Iglesia Villar As defined by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Inclusive Green Economy is "one that...


Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919): the inventor of modern patronage
The American tradition of modern patronage had an undisputed founder, Andrew Carnegie. Throughout history we find many examples of...


Gunter Pauli
Gunter Pauli is a Belgian economist (Antwerp, 1956) known worldwide as the father of Blue Economics, and author of a book with the same...


The Human Factor
Cybersecurity experts have a habit of insisting that, over and above the ever-increasing sophistication of cyberattacks, the human factor...


Economy for the Common Good
Economy for the Common Good, a model proposed by the Austrian economist Martin Felber, aspires to be an alternative to predatory...


The Blue Economy
The blue economy is a concept developed by the Belgian economist Gunter Pauli, in which he proposes imitating Nature's way of working, so...


Kate Rawoth's doughnut economic model
We can only applaud when common sense prevails. And we consider Oxford and Cambridge economist Kate Rawoth's doughnut economic model as...


The social media trap
Not long ago, an intriguing documentary released on Netflix, entitled "The Social Media Dilemma", added names and facts to a problem that...


Marine energy
Overall, marine is one of the most promising renewable and non-polluting energies available at the moment, and is expected to be Europe's...


Which countries innovate the most?
Knowledge proceeds from the comparison of clear and distinct ideas. "Essay Concerning Human Understanding" (1690), John Locke When we...


Planned obsolescence
I begin this article with a personal example. My CANDY refrigerator, which is just over 10 years old, has recently failed after a final...


Graphene
One of the most important areas of innovation in recent decades has been new materials. It has been one of the spin-offs of the space...
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