· La inversión en Venture Capital tecnológico/digital en España no supera 1€ per cápita cuando es superior a los 140 dólares per cápita en Israel y los 70 en EEUU. · A pesar de las dificultades existe una (gran) cantera de talento emprendedor en el país e invesores activos, algunos de ellos extranjeros. · En esta sesión les daremos la palabra a éstos últimos,¿por qué han invertido o por qué invierten en España? ¿Qué deberíamos hacer para que haya más como ellos que inviertan en el futuro? · La sesión girará en torno a esas dos preguntas, en formato de debate abierto con dinámica de mesa redonda, favoreciendo la interacción.[read more]

ESADEgeo held its fith GeoCEO event on January 26, 2012 in ESADE-Madrid. The seminar was chaired by Javier Solana, Presdient of ESADEgeo and delivered by Mary Kaldor, British economist and professor of Global Governanceat the London School of Economics. Mary Kaldor,an expert in globalisation, international relations, and humanitarian intervention,highlighted the main human security issues around the globe and the impact of globalisation, and discussed possible solutions and responses on the part of the international players.[read more]

The third master class of ESADE’s Inspiring Futures sessions featured guest speaker Pedro L. Alonso, a researcher specialised in malaria, who, alongside ESADEgeo President Javier Solana, reflected on the great challenges of global health, highlighting in particular the delicate situation of developing countries. Dr. Alonso, who leads the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) and the Barcelona Centre for International Health Research (CRESIB), began by focusing on the current state of health worldwide and its evolution over the past two centuries. He used visual aids to show the evolution of life expectancy in different countries around the world. He made it clear that the real breakthrough in life expectancy has come about in the past 50 years: "Twenty-five more years of life in all countries, essentially due to the development and distribution of vaccines, which eradicated smallpox and are close to doing the same with polio and measles. This is a revolution comparable only to the invention of the wheel." This shift, according to Dr. Alonso, is what makes the 20th century such an exceptional historical period. [read more]

Con el objetivo de analizar las profundas transformaciones que marcarán este cambio de época, Javier Solana, presidente de ESADEgeo, y Lluís Bassets, director adjunto del diario El País, acaban de publicar "Primaveras, Terremotos y Crisis"- Random House Mondadori, ENDEBATE. La publicación sale a la luz un año después de "Reivindicación de la Política", el primer libro publicado conjuntamente por Javier Solana y Lluís Bassets en el que ambos autores repasaban los últimos 20 años de política internacional desde una privilegiada perspectiva. Descargar el libro "Primavera, Terremotos y Crisis" (pdf)[read more]

The workshop 'The Coming Energy Market', held on 24 and 25 of November in Madrid, was the first in a series on global energy management organised by ESADEgeo in collaboration with the Aspen Institute, The Boston Consulting Group, and KIC InnoEnergy. The workshop aimed to put energy back in the international spotlight. The event brought together a panel of experts from business, academic, and organisational spheres with the goal of "looking at energy in the widest sense and from the perspectives of technology, geopolitics, and the regulatory and policy framework." To read more[read more]

Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) are state-owned investment funds with combined asset holdings that are fast approaching four trillion dollars. Recently emerging as a major force in global financial markets, SWFs have other distinctive features besides their state-owned status: they are mainly located in developing countries and are intimately tied to energy and commodities exports, and they carry virtually no liabilities and have little redemption risk, which allows them to take a longer-term investment outlook than most other institutional investors. Edited by a Nobel Laureate, a respected academic at the Columbia Business School, and a longtime international banker and asset manager, this volume examines the specificities of SWFs in greater detail and discusses the implications of their growing presence for the world economy. Based on essays delivered in 2011 at a major conference on SWFs held at Columbia University, this volume discusses the objectives and performance of SWFs, as well as their benchmarks and governance. What are the opportunities for SWFs as long-term investments? How do they fulfill their socially responsible mission? And what role can SWFs play in fostering sustainable development and greater global financial stability? These are some of the crucial questions addressed in this one-of-a-kind volume.[read more]

The Brookings Institute and ESADEgeo presented "An Economic Agenda for Cities and Metropolitan Areas". Across the world, the rate of urbanization is rapidly increasing. This is a good thing for the economy as cities are far more efficient generators of GDP. Yet urban growth brings with it new challenges; those of inequality, environmental sustainability, talent attraction, competitiveness. Grappling with these issues and more, the event, organized by Brookings Institute and ESADE, brought together public and private city leaders, who are working to implement new business models for their cities… [read more]