2014 has been a good year for M&A in Latin America, with our analysis highlighting the growth of activity in Colombia and Brazil.


2014 has been a good year for M&A in Latin America, with our analysis highlighting the growth of activity in Colombia and Brazil.
Next February, the H2020 calls will close under the second societal challenge: Food Security, Sustainable Agriculture, Marine and Maritime Research and Bioeconomy. Its objective is to ensure a sufficient supply of safe and high quality food and other bio-products through the development of productive and efficient primary production systems.
Mergers and acquisitions in our country continue to grow, reaching a figure of 110 transactions amounting to €14,868M in October. This represents a 5.77% increase in the number of transactions and a 92.72% increase in the capital mobilised compared to the...
2014 has been a good year for the ICT sector, with worldwide investments reaching the highest figures since the technology bubble of 2000. A good third quarter According to data from 451 Research, a consultancy and research company,...
Emprendetur R&D&I is the programme that supports research, development and innovation applied to products and services in the tourism sector. The 2014-2015 call for applications will open soon, which is why we have decided to make an analysis of the beneficiaries in 2013.
80 million to companies and entrepreneurs developing applications based on FI-WARE, a platform that represents an open option for the development and global deployment of applications in the Future Internet.

After several years of little movement in the Spanish aeronautical sector caused mainly by the crisis, 2013 saw a slight recovery. Nine purchase operations were carried out in our country, a number that triples the 3 operations carried out in 2011. In addition, the operations carried out last year were for quite high amounts.
The deadline has opened for the submission of projects to Profactory plus, a call within the framework of the Eureka grants, to help European companies in the development of innovative products in the field of sustainable and intelligent manufacturing technologies.
Yesterday, the 28th of October, Juan Diego Cuenca, partner at Abra-invest, took part in the Gestionaradio programme «En Clave de», presented by Gonzalo Estafanía. Juan Diego provided an investment analysis of the biotechnology sector in Spain, drawing on the new tool they have developed, Logic-fin, which makes it possible to track transactions carried out across different sectors. Here is the link to the programme.
The Eurostars-Eureka programme awarded by the European Commission and Eurostars member states provides grants to develop market-oriented transnational projects among R&D-intensive SMEs. In Spain, these grants are managed through the Interempresas Internacional programme, managed by CDTI, and the last call was very successful.

Wayra, Telefónica's international start-up accelerator, has already accelerated 415 start-ups from more than 20 different technology sectors since its inception in 2011. The impact on the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Spain has been very significant.

The CDTI launches the global innovation line to finance business projects that boost the growth of SMEs through investment in technological innovation.