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L'any 2011 es commemora el 25è aniversari de la creació de la primera estructura organitzativa estable dedicada a les malalties autoimmunes a l'Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, la Unitat de Recerca en Malalties Autoimmunes Sistèmiques. Aquesta Unitat es va constituir el 1986 com a part de l'organigrama de recerca del Servei de Medicina Interna General i va ser la pecursora de l'actual Servei de Malalties Autoimmunes. Enguany també arriba a la jubilació Miguel Ingelmo, primer cap del Servei i promotor d'aquesta estructura, juntament amb Josep Font (mort prematurament el 2006 als 53 anys d'edat, en plena maduresa professional).En aquesta memòria dels primers 25 anys (1986-2011) de dedicaci...
This book focuses on one of the main issues of our time in the Humanities and Social Sciences as it analyzes the impact of current global migrations on new forms of living together and the formation of new identities and homes.
Financial technologies are understood as ICT-based financial innovations and business entities based on these innovations (Lai & Samers, 2021; Langley & Leyshon, 2021; Wójcik, 2021b). Like other technological innovations, Fintech not only influences technical parameters of products and services, but also transforms the economic organization of firms and industries (Baldwin, 2020; Sanchez & Mahoney, 2013). ICT solutions in the financial sector complement the existing services (e.g., payment platforms), substitute human work and tangible assets (e.g., robo-advisers), and generate new solutions (e.g., mobile wallets). Furthermore, Fintech transcends borders and geographical frontiers, as exemp...
Since the 2008 economic crisis, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have faced serious financial problems and have been looking to financial institutions and governments for solutions and new proposals to address these issues. This book examines the new challenge in which firms receive sustainable funding that is in alignment with the company’s spending capacity. The purpose of this book is to examine the main theoretical issues and practices regarding entrepreneurship and finance and their impact on performance, innovation and economic growth. It analyzes the fundamental aspects of entrepreneurship and studies ways in which financial institutions can better fulfill their primary fun...
We study how external versus internal innovations promote economic growth through a tractable endogenous growth framework with multiple innovation sizes, multi-product firms, and entry/exit. Firms invest in external R&D to acquire new product lines and in internal R&D to improve their existing product lines. A baseline model derives the theoretical implications of weaker scaling for external R&D versus internal R&D, and the resulting predictions align with observed empirical regularities for innovative firms. Quantifying a generalized model for the recent U.S. economy using matched Census Bureau and patent data, we observe a modest departure for external R&D from perfect scaling frameworks.
The State of the World's Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture presents the first global assessment of biodiversity for food and agriculture worldwide. Biodiversity for food and agriculture is the diversity of plants, animals and micro-organisms at genetic, species and ecosystem levels, present in and around crop, livestock, forest and aquatic production systems. It is essential to the structure, functions and processes of these systems, to livelihoods and food security, and to the supply of a wide range of ecosystem services. It has been managed or influenced by farmers, livestock keepers, forest dwellers, fish farmers and fisherfolk for hundreds of generations. Prepared through a participa...
Aquest treball s’ocupa de l’evolució del teixit empresarial a la demarcació provincial de Tarragona entre els anys 1994 i 2009. Es tracta d’un estudi de dinàmica empresarial que pretén analitzar els ritmes de creació i tancament d’empreses així com els seus determinants. Les dades subministrades per l’INE faciliten observar quina ha estat la dinàmica empresarial a la demarcació de Tarragona, i comparar-la amb la registrada a l’Estat espanyol i a Catalunya. El període d’estudi comprèn un nombre considerable d’anys, en total setze exercicis. La cobertura temporal del treball ens permet observar la creació i la destrucció del teixit empresarial en diferents conjuntures.