Ferran Herraiz Faixó PhD

Las economías quieren digitalizarse y para ello vigilan con atención la evolución de sus indicadores digitales. En este modo de vigilancia, algunos países se encuentran sumergidos en cierta “obsesión” por la carrera digital queriendo ganar etapas en el corto plazo, sin darse cuenta de que corren el riesgo de perder la carrera de fondo por descuidar impulsar otros vectores. Este trabajo pretende descubrir los desequilibrios que se están produciendo entre los niveles de digitalización de los países que conforman la Unión Europea. La investigación concluye que el espectro del análisis digital debe incluir también el ecosistema al que afecta

Cities are the future of humanity and for the coming majority, their next great home. This rapid urbanization of the planet presents great challenges and, at the same time, great opportunities. On the one hand, the concentration of people in urban spaces provides numerous economies of scale but, on the other hand, also implies the potential generation of negative externalities that must be managed by a “smarter city” to find a balance. Mobility in cities, the fact that moving in a vehicle (fuel, electric, shared, autonomous), public transport or other means is becoming a common, difficult and complex congestion problem for cities, has negative economic consequences. This enormous pressure for efficiency and the search for solutions are making significant inroads into the incorporation of ICT in smart cities and subsequent large-scale digitization to resolve this issue and other setbacks. This deployment needs to be conducted with a broad perspective incorporating economics and human concepts such as digital assets or citizen incentives in city strategies because in cities, people and resources are key players.

Currently, cities are facing great challenges such as the population growing, citizen wellbeing, externalities management or environmental deterioration. The search for solutions are making significant inroads into the incorporation of ICT in them and subsequent large-scale digitalization such as programmable economy (PE) applications, offering the possibility to develop new approaches over these issues, in particular which related to sustainability management. Operating under a fuzzy numbers methodology and FIS (Fuzzy Inference System), the present exploratory work shows a new approach to city urban congestion management by deploying PE applications, which include some disruptive inputs such as the Internet of value, blockchain/DLT (distributed ledger technology), smarts contracts, digital assets and the monetization, all of this combined with the human motivation.

Uncontrolled global economic growth at any cost is having palpable and general consequences for SC (smart cities) environments and sustainability worldwide. The current economic growth model is, according to experts, decidedly unsustainable, and if urgent measures are not taken, the quality of life for future citizens will decline. In the search for solutions that would make cities sustainable, the deployment of the ICT factor is playing a decisive role. However, in its role as a driver, the ICT factor needs to increase the numbers of value endpoint connectors by incorporating citizens, corporations and institutions into city decision-making, thereby becoming a real integrative tool that achieves sustainability and is more than merely a tech flag. In this sense, the present paper proposes that the digital and programmable economy as an ecosystem should become a sustainability city driver because it facilitates the integration of different value endpoints in order to work in the same...

In the fields of economics, business and management, how could Digital Transformation (DT) advance value creation and reliably encourage value capture, exchange and distribution? This thesis aim to fill that gap with a novel framework to support policy-makers, countries, cities and businesses address the potential value that can be generated and captured by digitalization combining DT and Internet of Value theoretical perspectives and practical applications of them over concrete issues such as sustainability in cities, as an example. For this, it is proposed to make new contributions related to DT and Internet of Value in two main aspects: to explore DT countries’ mindsets when it relates to their value progress through Digital Ecosystems and to advance with the potential digital value applications through Programmable Economy advantages when it focus on concrete aspect such as sustainability in cities. Both perspectives, although it will be applied on different dimensions and on di...

Uncontrolled global economic growth at any cost is having palpable and general consequences for SC (smart cities) environments and sustainability worldwide. The current economic growth model is, according to experts, decidedly unsustainable, and if urgent measures are not taken, the quality of life for future citizens will decline. In the search for solutions that would make cities sustainable, the deployment of the ICT factor is playing a decisive role. However, in its role as a driver, the ICT factor needs to increase the numbers of value endpoint connectors by incorporating citizens, corporations and institutions into city decision-making, thereby becoming a real integrative tool that achieves sustainability and is more than merely a tech flag. In this sense, the present paper proposes that the digital and programmable economy as an ecosystem should become a sustainability city driver because it facilitates the integration of different value endpoints in order to work in the same purpose, allowing, for example, increased sustainability levels in cities such as improving municipal recycling. This paper will apply ICT and digital concepts, the environment-social-economy model and fuzzy logic methodology.

Currently, cities are facing great challenges such as the population growing, citizen wellbeing, externalities management or environmental deterioration. The search for solutions are making significant inroads into the incorporation of ICT in them and subsequent large-scale digitalization such as programmable economy (PE) applications, offering the possibility to develop new approaches over these issues, in particular which related to sustainability management. Operating under a fuzzy numbers methodology and FIS (Fuzzy Inference System), the present exploratory work shows a new approach to city urban congestion management by deploying PE applications, which include some disruptive inputs such as the Internet of value, blockchain/DLT (distributed ledger technology), smarts contracts, digital assets and the monetization, all of this combined with the human motivation.

Cities are the future of humanity and for the coming majority their next great home. This rapid urbanization of the planet presents great challenges and, at the same time, great opportunities. On the one hand, the concentration of people in urban spaces provides numerous economies of scale but, on the other hand, also implies the potential generation of negative externalities that must be managed by a “smarter city” to find a balance. Mobility in cities, the fact that moving in a vehicle (fuel, electric, shared, autonomous), public transport or other means is becoming a common, difficult and complex congestion problem for cities, has negative economic consequences. This enormous pressure for efficiency and the search for solutions are making significant inroads into the incorporation of ICT in smart cities and subsequent large-scale digitization to resolve this issue and other setbacks. This deployment needs to be conducted with a broad perspective incorporating economics and human concepts such as digital assets or citizen incentives in city strategies because in cities, people and resources are key players.

Using a forgotten effects methodology, the present exploratory work shows a new model of city congestion management deploying the possibilities offered by some disruptive technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain/distributed ledger technology (DLT) and token economy, combined with a human capital aspect such as a reinforcement theory. The potential possibilities that these concepts have in future mobility and other fields are large in terms of moving towards a more sustainable, decentralized and intelligent management enabling an authentic digital jump

Economies want to be digital. Considering this desire, some countries are
involved in an obsessive digital race, wanting to gain in short-term stages without
realizing that they are losing progress in long-term positions as a result of having
an unclear understanding of digital transformation and its hidden implications.
This work aims to discover the imbalances occurring among countries’
performances between digital levels and their gross value added over time. The
research concludes that the actual spectrum of digital analysis must also reinforce
non-tech variables, and public and private agents must consider them in their
programs. Consistent digital transformation advances can be obtained only
when they are treated as ecosystem phenomena.

¿De qué modo las organizaciones y los Ceo's ajustan su visión estratégica frente a los mega cambios producidos en el entorno? En particular, ¿qué impacto están teniendo los conceptos de Revolución Tecnológica, Industria 4.0 y 4ª Revolución Industrial en la visión estratégica de las empresas? La idea de que estos tres eventos singulares pudieran estar conectados a través de un conjunto de variables comunes, permitiría estudiarlos como un único macro evento singular. Ello podría beneficiar a las empresas y organizaciones de cara a entender su alcance e impacto conjunto y les permitiría visionar su propio encaje sobre los mismos al disponer de un marco de referencia único. Para ser más específicos, se haría necesario hacer un ejercicio de aproximación sobre estos tres eventos singulares determinando sus puntos de conexión frecuentes, y hacerlo desde una mirada amplia que contuviera la perspectiva de los diferentes colectivos implicados. Con este fin, el presente artículo trata, a través de una aproximación descriptiva, de visualizar de manera holística estos tres eventos para conocer sus conexiones y ver cómo las

In a digital framework, what kind of game does your company and managers tend to play… Golf, Tennis or Baseball? When the company decides the type of the game, at the same
time, decides to comply with the rules and the flows. Once the
game is decided, the company can´t be changing immediately.

The possibility that the Cryptomonedas, in particular, the Bitcoin, become a means of alternative payment, takes on ever greater force. However, research whether it constitutes an opportunity or a necessity for businesses and entrepreneurs, is scarcely developed. With the aim of moving forward on how innovations are accepted into the ecosystem (consumers, companies, entrepreneurs) and taking as an example the Bitcoin, this paper presents a research line that analyzes the relationship between: the perceptions of users on these, the reliability in the Bitcoin system and the willingness of entrepreneurs to joining for its widespread use. Expected results sufficiently conform to the specimen and allow us to conclude that there is a significant relationship between the variables analyzed, highlighting that occurs between the confidence towards innovation (Bitcoin) of current users and the willingness of the entrepreneur to include it in its initial Business Plan.