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TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE" "" "Today, tech companies face intense competition worldwide. There is not the luxury of taking time. Every day lost is some competitor's gain, and no amount of money will buy that back again. View in LinkedIn

VISIT SILICON ROUNDABOUT IN LONDON" "" "Very shortly, we visit London's Tech City, with the Innovation Warehouse, and Google Campus, with our Chairman Oliver Rothschild, to learn from that model. I also spend at least a week per quarter in Silicon Valley CA, keeping current. View in LinkedIn

THE BARCELONA KEY INITIATIVE" "" "The Barcelona Knowledge Economy Yard project by Miquel Barceló is a very exciting addition to our community, bringing international innovators to Barcelona to create a critical mass rather like a mini-Google Campus. Get involved. View in LinkedIn

ACADEMIC CEOs" "" "Most Catalan tech companies spun out of research centers with academic CEOs with no commercial experience. This is why we are good at R but not D. Mentors can significantly help these young entrepreneurs. View in LinkedIn

LARGE WORKSHOPS FOR BD" "" "Catalan companies need to take BD workshops to learn how to find their international partners to fund their technology in Barcelona. As coffers drain, time is running out. This is the Survival of the Fittest. View in LinkedIn

KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY EXPERIMENT IN PERIL" "" "I am a huge supporter of this social experiment. But unless we act at scale, with speed, the Crisis will snuff out the promising crop of young companies. They need big quick education on sustainable and targeted internationalization. View in LinkedIn

STUDY OF THE RISK OF SPRAYING. "In recent years, the MoD has commissioned two scientists to review the safety of these tests. Both reported that there was no risk to public health, although one suggested the elderly or people suffering from breathing illnesses may have been seriously harmed if they inhaled sufficient quantities of micro-organisms." http://conspiracies.skepticproject.com/articles/chemtrails/ View in LinkedIn

WE NEED TO CREATE A BARCELONA SILICON VALLEY" "" "It will not be the same. But the ingredients are here. And many brave souls have spent 15 years getting us to this point. Upon their shoulders, the next level must rise. View in LinkedIn

BRITAIN ADMITS SECRET SPRAYING EXPERIMENTS. "Britain has recently released information on a series of secret biological warfare experiments conducted from 1940-1979. The research was being done to find out the British population's vulnerability to certain pathogens, in case the Russians were to release clouds of deadly germs over the country. Most of these experiments consisted of germ-like substitutes which had very little health risks. "In most cases, the trials did not use biological weapons but alternatives which scientists believed would mimic germ warfare and which the MoD claimed were harmless." http://conspiracies.skepticproject.com/articles/chemtrails/ View in LinkedIn

WE NEED THE NEXT GOOGLE IN CATALONIA" "" "The best investment example in the US is DARPA, the high-risk, high-return military technology investor who only expects a 10% success rate. We need early-stage risk capital to light a bomb. View in LinkedIn