The Bankinter Foundation of Innovation invites you to be part of the first virtual community in Europe focused on Innovation. This space has been created for you, to share the ideas, opinions, projects and encounters of the most captivating opinion leaders in the world in a challenge to promote the innovation amongst the decisions makers in the world.
Filed under: 3G/ UMTS
Under the heading third generation, 3G, the mobile telephony industry brings together a set of new procedures and technologies that will enhance and multiply the services available in mobile telephony. (more…)
Filed under: Personalized Medicine
In June 2000, Tony Blair and Bill Clinton held a joint press conference at which they announced the completion of the Human Genome projects the availability of a first draft of the genome or genetic code of the human being. This milestone, one of the greatest scientific achievements in human history, means that today our generation may well be facing a quiet revolution which will change our current understanding of medicine, ushering in what is generally known among the scientific community as personalized medicine. (more…)
Filed under: China
In the late 1970s, Deng Xiaoping took a great step forward: he decided to open China up to the outside world. Neit
her he nor anyone else could have realized what the global repercussions of this move would be. China has not conquered the world with a great army, but instead with its assembly plants and with the opening up of its markets. Over the last 25 years, the country has experienced a nearly two-figure annual growth rate, releasing around 500 million people from the most abject poverty (and turning them into the potential customers of a globalised world).
Today it is the world’s second-largest trading power, the largest recipient of direct foreign investment and the second-largest consumer of oil products. Its voracious appetite for raw materials has upset international markets: China now buys 40% of the world’s cement, quarter of its aluminum and nearly a third of its iron ore. (more…)
Filed under: New Consumers
Our society is changing at a bewildering rate, in terms of composition, behavior and consumption patterns. In the more developed countries, senior citizens now occupy a significant segment in the population pyramids, as birth rate plummet. In the future, this situation is likely to complicate the sustainability of the current pension system. For their part, immigrants have long ago ceased to be an isolated group with limited financial resources and now hold an important place in the workforce. They will most certainly help alleviate the effects of population ageing, even if they do not halt the process altogether. (more…)
Filed under: Nanotechnology
In 1959, in a paper entitled “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom”, physicist Richard Feynmann proposed a new field of study for science: technology at an atomic and molecular scale. “The principles of physics, as far as I can see, do not speak against the possibility of maneuvering things atom by atom”, Feynmann told the American Physical Society, opening the way to any interested investors. His talk sparked an interest in developing technology at a minute scale, which has continued to the present day, and which will probably result in a silent revolution which will have an impact on many different areas of our everyday life. (more…)
Filed under: Energy
Throughout human history, people have always sought new resources to make their lives healthier, simpler, and more enjoyable. In this quest, the discovery of new energy sources has played an important role in the development of society. (more…)
Filed under: Web 2.0
In 2005 and 2006 the media was full of talk about Web 2.0. To a large extent, this interest was justified, given the boom in social networking sites and the billion-dollar sums being paid for some of the most emblematic websites.
But what is Web 2.0? Web 2.0 is really a new way of doing things so it’s hardly surprising that, in the technological arena, the basic standards on which Web 2.0 applications and services are based already existed long before the concept was given a name. (more…)
This is the essential starting place for anyone who wants to be an innovation leader. Some people
innovate because they cannot stop themselves: after all, we humans are tool builders and tinkerers always looking to make something new and better. But most of us innovate because we must. Something that irritates us can be made less annoying; something that intrigues us can be made compelling. Ultimately when things change in the world we must take action. We improve the known or invent the new because if we don’t change we become irrelevant.
Innovation is probably different than you think
