Enabling and limiting factors for business development of the Circular Bioeconomy. Empirical analysis for the case of Andalusia

El presente trabajo tiene por objetivo analizar los factores habilitantes y limitantes para el desarrollo empresarial de iniciativas de éxito en el ámbito de la bioeconomía circular (BEC) en Andalucía. La metodología seguida para su realización ha consistido en la selección de una muestra de empresas andaluzas con líneas de negocio basadas en actividades de BEC, en la realización de entrevistas extensas a las personas gestoras para la identificación de los factores habilitantes y limitantes de tales líneas de negocio y en la agregación de la información cuantitativa recogida para la realización de un análisis descriptivo global y sectorial. Los principales resultados que se desprenden de dicho análisis es que los factores habilitantes que han fomentado el desarrollo de estas iniciativas han sido principalmente el ‘Compromiso ético con el medio ambiente’, seguido de cerca por el ‘Conocimiento tecnológico específico’ y la ‘Rentabilidad privada’. Por su parte, aquellos factores que han actuado como limitantes han sido, en primer lugar, la ‘Burocracia’, seguida por la ‘Normativa reguladora de la actividad’ y, en igualdad de importancia, por las ‘Necesidades financieras’ y por las ‘Barreras tecnológicas.The present work aims to analyze the enabling and limiting factors for the successful business development in the field of circular bioeconomy (CBE) in Andalusia. The analysis relies on a survey of a selection of successful Andalusian companies with business lines based on CBE activities, based on extensive interviews to firm managers to identify the enabling and limiting factors of such business lines, and in the aggregation of the quantitative information collected to derive a basic global and sectoral descriptive assessment. The main results that emerge from this analysis is that on the one hand, the enabling factors that have fostered the development of these initiatives have been mainly the 'Ethical commitment to the environment', closely followed by 'Specific technological knowledge' and 'Private profitability'. On the other hand, the factors that have acted as limiting factors have been, in the first place, the 'Bureaucracy', followed by the 'Regulations related to the activity' and, in equal level of importance, the 'Financial needs' and the 'Technological barriers'

Factores habilitantes y limitantes para el desarrollo empresarial de la bioeconomía circular. Análisis empírico para el caso de Andalucía

El presente trabajo tiene por objetivo analizar los factores habilitantes y limitantes para el desarrollo empresarial de iniciativas de éxito en el ámbito de la bioeconomía circular (BEC) en Andalucía. La metodología seguida para su realización ha consistido en la selección de una muestra de empresas andaluzas con líneas de negocio basadas en actividades BEC, en la realización de entrevistas extensas para la identificación de los factores habilitantes y limitantes de tales líneas de negocio y en la agregación de la información cuantitativa recogida para la realización de un análisis descriptivo global y sectorial básico. Los principales resultados que se desprenden de dicho análisis es que los factores habilitantes que han fomentado el desarrollo de estas iniciativas han sido principalmente el ‘Compromiso ético con el medio ambiente’, seguido de cerca por el ‘Conocimiento tecnológico específico’, y la ‘Rentabilidad privada’. Por su parte, aquellos factores que han actuado como limitantes, han sido, en primer lugar, la ‘Burocracia’, seguida por la ‘Normativa reguladora de la actividad’ y, en igualdad de importancia, por las ‘Necesidades financieras’, y por las ‘Barreras tecnológicas’.Este informe ha sido elaborado por el equipo de investigación del grupo WEARE, con sede en la Universidad de Córdoba, por encargo de la Secretaría General de Agricultura, Ganadería y Alimentación de la Consejería de Agricultura, Ganadería, Pesca y Desarrollo Sostenible de la Junta de Andalucía, como parte del proyecto europeo POWER4BIO (https://power4bio.eu/ GA 818351)

Factores habilitantes y limitantes para el éxito de iniciativas de bioeconomía circular en Andalucía

El informe presenta los resultados de un estudio sobre factores habilitantes y limitantes que se ha llevado a cabo mediante la realización de entrevistas a responsables de empresas que pueden ser consideradas casos de éxito de la bioeconomía circular (BEC) en Andalucía. La muestra ha consistido en 21 empresas representativas desde el punto de vista sectorial, geográfico, de dimensión y de tipo de empresa. Las respuestas se han recogido en un cuestionario semiestructurado para la caracterización de su actividad y para la identificación y determinación de la importancia relativa de los factores habilitantes y limitantes de sus líneas de negocio. Finalmente, se ha agregado la información cuantitativa y cualitativa de los factores analizados y se ha realizado un análisis descriptivo global y sectorial. El sector con mayor presencia de iniciativas es el del olivar y aceite de oliva (seis), seguido del hortofrutícola (cuatro) y la reutilización de agua (dos), con presencia de sectores emergentes como bioestimulantes, microalgas, alimentos funcionales e insectos.Unión Europea 81835

CIBERER : Spanish national network for research on rare diseases: A highly productive collaborative initiative

Altres ajuts: Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII); Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación.CIBER (Center for Biomedical Network Research; Centro de Investigación Biomédica En Red) is a public national consortium created in 2006 under the umbrella of the Spanish National Institute of Health Carlos III (ISCIII). This innovative research structure comprises 11 different specific areas dedicated to the main public health priorities in the National Health System. CIBERER, the thematic area of CIBER focused on rare diseases (RDs) currently consists of 75 research groups belonging to universities, research centers, and hospitals of the entire country. CIBERER's mission is to be a center prioritizing and favoring collaboration and cooperation between biomedical and clinical research groups, with special emphasis on the aspects of genetic, molecular, biochemical, and cellular research of RDs. This research is the basis for providing new tools for the diagnosis and therapy of low-prevalence diseases, in line with the International Rare Diseases Research Consortium (IRDiRC) objectives, thus favoring translational research between the scientific environment of the laboratory and the clinical setting of health centers. In this article, we intend to review CIBERER's 15-year journey and summarize the main results obtained in terms of internationalization, scientific production, contributions toward the discovery of new therapies and novel genes associated to diseases, cooperation with patients' associations and many other topics related to RD research

CIBERER: Spanish national network for research on rare diseases: A highly productive collaborative initiative

13 páginas,1 figura, 3 tablas, 1 apéndice. Se extraen los autores pertenecientes a The CIBERER network que trabajan en Centros del CSIC del Appendix ACIBER (Center for Biomedical Network Research; Centro de Investigación Biomédica En Red) is a public national consortium created in 2006 under the umbrella of the Spanish National Institute of Health Carlos III (ISCIII). This innovative research structure comprises 11 different specific areas dedicated to the main public health priorities in the National Health System. CIBERER, the thematic area of CIBER focused on rare diseases (RDs) currently consists of 75 research groups belonging to universities, research centers, and hospitals of the entire country. CIBERER's mission is to be a center prioritizing and favoring collaboration and cooperation between biomedical and clinical research groups, with special emphasis on the aspects of genetic, molecular, biochemical, and cellular research of RDs. This research is the basis for providing new tools for the diagnosis and therapy of low-prevalence diseases, in line with the International Rare Diseases Research Consortium (IRDiRC) objectives, thus favoring translational research between the scientific environment of the laboratory and the clinical setting of health centers. In this article, we intend to review CIBERER's 15-year journey and summarize the main results obtained in terms of internationalization, scientific production, contributions toward the discovery of new therapies and novel genes associated to diseases, cooperation with patients' associations and many other topics related to RD research.This study has been funded by Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII) and Spanish Ministry of Science and InnovationPeer reviewe

Measuring the Sustainability of Water Plans in Inter-Regional Spanish River Basins

This paper analyses and compares the sustainability of the water plans in the Spanish River basins according to the objectives of the Water Framework Directive. Even though the concept of sustainability has been traditionally associated with the triple bottom line framework, composed of economic, environmental, and social dimensions, in this paper sustainability has been enlarged by including governance aspects. Two multicriteria decision analysis approaches are proposed to aggregate the sustainability dimensions. Results show that the environmental dimension plays the most important role in the whole sustainability (40%) of water basins, followed by both economic and social criteria (25%). By contrast, the dimension of governance is the least important for sustainability (11%). A classification of the Spanish basins according to their sustainability indicates that the water agency with the highest sustainability is Western Cantabrian, followed by Eastern Cantabrian and Tagus. By contrast, Minho-Sil, Jucar, and Douro are the least sustainable

Support vector machine and artificial neural network models for the classification of grapevine varieties using a portable NIR spectrophotometer

The identification of different grapevine varieties, currently attended using visual ampelometry, DNA analysis and very recently, by hyperspectral analysis under laboratory conditions, is an issue of great importance in the wine industry. This work presents support vector machine and artificial neural network's modelling for grapevine varietal classification from in-field leaf spectroscopy. Modelling was attempted at two scales: site-specific and a global scale. Spectral measurements were obtained on the near-infrared (NIR) spectral range between 1600 to 2400 nm under field conditions in a non-destructive way using a portable spectrophotometer. For the site specific approach, spectra were collected from the adaxial side of 400 individual leaves of 20 grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) varieties one week after veraison. For the global model, two additional sets of spectra were collected one week before harvest from two different vineyards in another vintage, each one consisting on 48 measurement from individual leaves of six varieties. Several combinations of spectra scatter correction and smoothing filtering were studied. For the training of the models, support vector machines and artificial neural networks were employed using the pre-processed spectra as input and the varieties as the classes of the models. The results from the pre-processing study showed that there was no influence whether using scatter correction or not. Also, a second-degree derivative with a window size of 5 Savitzky-Golay filtering yielded the highest outcomes. For the site-specific model, with 20 classes, the best results from the classifiers thrown an overall score of 87.25% of correctly classified samples. These results were compared under the same conditions with a model trained using partial least squares discriminant analysis, which showed a worse performance in every case. For the global model, a 6-class dataset involving samples from three different vineyards, two years and leaves monitored at post-veraison and harvest was also built up, reaching a 77.08% of correctly classified samples. The outcomes obtained demonstrate the capability of using a reliable method for fast, in-field, non-destructive grapevine varietal classification that could be very useful in viticulture and wine industry, either global or site-specific. © 2015 Gutiérrez et al.This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited

La expresión corporal en educación física : propuesta curricular desde la administración educativa

Resumen basado en el de la publicaciónSe analiza la expresión corporal en la Educación Física y se presenta un estudio de caso de un Match de improvisación. La expresión corporal es el instrumento con el cual se producen las variadas formas del arte del movimiento. Es fundamental en el proceso de comunicación y éste debe ser interactivo y dinámico. Se analiza la expresión corporal como medio educativo para la formación integral del alumnado. En el estudio del caso, se muestra cómo se aplica al marco escolar y en qué puede ayudar.AndalucíaBiblioteca de Educación del Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte; Calle San Agustín 5 -3 Planta; 28014 Madrid; Tel. +34917748000; [email protected]