Processes of absorption of start-up ideas and products by large companies to maintain and consolidate economic and global power

Processes of absorption of start-up ideas and products by large companies to maintain and consolidate economic and global power

According to most experts in industrial development, we are at the beginning of what has been called Industry 4.0, which, as defined by Wikipedia, is a hypothetical fourth mega-stage of technical-economic evolution of mankind, starting from the First Industrial Revolution: Industry 4.0 and its synonym Fourth Industrial Revolution are expressions that name a hypothetical fourth mega-stage of the technical-economic evolution of mankind, counting from the First Industrial Revolution. It would have started recently and its development would be projected towards the second decade of the 21st century. Artificial intelligence is pointed out as a central element of this transformation, intimately…
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Psychological barriers to the adoption of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies

Psychological barriers to the adoption of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies

The economic transformation that is taking place due to the emergence of the so-called cryptocurrencies and the impact they may have on the way in which human beings carry out monetary transactions for the purchase and sale of products and services is enormous, and of a magnitude that few people understand. Until now, the centralized system of banking management was based on the trust of a central node that managed and controlled all transactions that we could make, but the emergence of decentralized technologies such as the blockchain that support protocols such as Bitcoin and its namesake digital currency, among…
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Adding new consumers and new days for mass consumption

Adding new consumers and new days for mass consumption

For years now, the global financial and economic situation has been in a period of high volatility and "tension" that can "ruin" the best efforts of all the economic leaders of our society to maintain a monetary stability that facilitates its growth. Trade wars between countries to curb their own economic problems and imbalances are putting in check the interconnected and completely interdependent world system, where if one party closes a tap, drought occurs at the other point of the installation, and where if another party opens a floodgate, dozens of elements are flooded thousands of miles away. A hyper-connected…
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Transforming the business ecosystem towards environmentally friendly “blue economy” models

Transforming the business ecosystem towards environmentally friendly “blue economy” models

Over the last few years there has been an attempt by some sectors of the business ecosystem to renew all the industrial processes that have been generating most of the waste, spills and residues on the planet. The model to follow, nature's own recycling systems, has been applied to some small-scale industries with very good results. Some of these companies have managed to greatly reduce their environmental impact and ecological footprint, cancelling or practically eliminating the emission of polluting gases into the atmosphere, or being able to recycle all or almost all the waste products generated by their production chain.…
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The “social” circular economy

The “social” circular economy

The inflationary processes that occur when a country's economy has financial stability problems and cannot adjust or contain the prices of the goods that citizens consume lead, in almost all cases, to complicated scenarios of loss of purchasing power on the part of citizens who see how the cost of products rises, without this necessarily meaning that salaries and incomes have risen to meet the increase in these costs. A little more expensive In general, it is always taken into account that everything we usually acquire increases in price every year "a little", so that the consumer price indexes that…
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