On such a marked day Restarting wants to share about fifty titles that talk about innovation. Good reading!!! The Invincible Company: How to Constantly Reinvent Your Organization with Inspiration From the World’s Best Business Models by Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur, Alan Smith, Frederic Etiemble Innocities. Urbanismo, Economía, Tecnología y Cambio Social by Miquel Barceló Ciencia, tecnología y startups

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Sport is also economy

That same month we learned about the agreement signed between the Generalitat and Barcelona Sportstech HUB23 with the aim of jointly promoting a ‘hub’ of sports technologies. Catalonia already has today one of the largest concentrations of companies linked to the sports industry in Europe. In addition, Barcelona is the third city on the continent

Badalona 2050

I live in that land of equipment that was never developed until we let some houses shared by older people, facing the sea, near the Anís del Mono. This walk is magnificent, the beach endures and those inflatable breakwaters [1] that they put a few meters from the sand, which swell or deflate depending on

Do we progress or regress? Humans have demonstrated many times that we are capable of continuing to find new ways to create economic value and thus continue to progress as a society. You only have to read a little Steven Pinker to understand that “in the last seven decades, humans have achieved a longer, healthier,

Re-exploring the notes of one of the Restarting workshops almost a year ago, before Covidien, when we met at the facilities of the Fundación Épica here in Badalona, ​​I am struck by the relevance of what was discussed, particularly with respect to Can Ruti, with a broader view of Badalona’s potential to contribute to the

There is no doubt that we need young citizens to work towards a solid way out of the current crisis. We place our hopes on future generations to solve problems that we cannot address or solve now, to improve the status quo, to one day sustain our pensions. Despite the importance that we recognize, youth

You can now retrieve sessions: First session: “Urban transformation“ Second session: “Economic transformation“ Third session: “University and research“

Locate the Global Agendas in Badalona

In a previous article we talked about the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (Agenda 2030) and the Urban Agenda. We discussed how its location in Badalona can help to draw up sustainable local development policies that allow us to get out of the crisis and guide the future of the city towards responsible growth. Today

Badalona’s global responsibility

Like the rest of European cities and the world, Badalona faces ecological, socioeconomic, health and cultural challenges, which cross borders and have a direct impact on citizens. These are challenges that will shape our future and that can only be tackled globally. The most recent and abrupt, due to the speed and severity of its

Ode to the city

It is undeniable, states have monopolized the political arena and international relations for centuries. They are the highest and most powerful hierarchically organized territorial unit on the political scale. The states have a representative seat in the United Nations, they guard a central bank, they have the strength of an army and the power to