This paper is a response to Beatriz Plaza's reply to an article we wrote for European Planning Studies, 8(4) (2000). We argued that a society in which a wide range of agents and institutions exhibits a well-developed set of values (confidence, cooperation, solidarity, etc.) is likely to be more...

Carbon nanotubes and graphene are often regarded as materials with some of the best properties for the development of applications in a wide variety of sectors. Research on carbon nanotubes and graphene leads to an increase in the application of nanotechnologies and prompts higher expectations...

Since its beginnings, economics, as a scientific discipline, has imported knowledge from other sciences (i.e. physics, biology, ecology, mathematics, etc.). Our aim is to bring the methodological tools of the thermodynamics in areas as the innovation. Moreover, these tools can be extended to...