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Urban Innovative Actions, ERDF instrument to test new solutions

The ERDF program for Urban Innovative Actions (UIA) seeks to promote disruptive projects in urban areas. Would you like to know more about present and future calls?

Pol Solà

January 2018 5 min read

Dolors Núñez: “Circular Economy is an opportunity for innovation”

Public authorities, enterprises and experts are taking a chance on circular economy as a solution to some of the environmental and economic challenges in the upcoming future.

Pol Solà

January 2018 4 min read

Open Innovation & Local Development

The local development concept has had to readapt itself to the current paradigms, such as the Open Innovation concept. Let us know this concept & take a look at some concrete examples!

Pol Solà

January 2018 7 min read

How to launch new products onto the training market?

Launching new products onto the training market is a not-standarized procedure, so it may vary depending on the circumstances that frame the environment.

Pol Solà

December 2017 4 min read

Public participation (II): how do we apply it?

U·TRANS collaborates with Milgrams in order to elaborate those technologies, particularly Apps, that allow to improve public participation processes.

Pol Solà

November 2017 5 min read

Fundació BEST seeks a Director for the new Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Technology and Economy

The Fundació BEST, recently established in Barcelona under the impetus of the Barcelona Tech and the Pompeu Fabra University and…

Francesc Quintana

November 2017 One min read

Public participation: justification and process (I)

All suspicions to public participation decay if we apply ICT tools that can easily open it to all kind of citizens. Do you agree with us?

Pol Solà

November 2017 4 min read

POCTEFA & INTERREG, windows of opportunity for cross-border cooperation

Let’s analyze some initiatives funded by the ERDF through its POCTEFA program in Spain and France, such as Hospital de Cerdanya.

Pol Solà

October 2017 One min read

How to encourage R&D in companies? Policies to support innovation in the private sector

Private agents are who support most of the investment in R&D. This post is to analyze the role of policies who encourage investment in R&D in companies.

Pol Solà

September 2017 0 min read

Who pays research?

It is a matter of interest to know which countries are carrying out more research and, therefore, how they can…

Pol Solà

September 2017 0 min read

Resistance to change within organizations (I)

The desire on not to change is common in the life of the organizations, as it is also in the…

Pol Solà

July 2017 0 min read

Spark Pool of Talent, generating synergies between talent and companies

On June 29, 2017, U·TRANS organized, together with Marinva, Hunivers People Hub and Riedulab, non-conventional consulting companies, the first workshop…

Pol Solà

July 2017 0 min read