The Chair of Science and Society of the Rafael del Pino Foundation promotes knowledge about science and technology. Its agenda of activities includes a story adapted to current events and people's lives.
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Javier Ventura-Travesset (ESA): "Europe has many strengths, but action is essential".
Orchestrating decisions to achieve the ambitious goals of the Moonlight project, in an environment as complex as that of the European Space Agency, is one of the tasks of Javier Ventura-Travesset, with whom we talk about how to take action and how to drive innovation through demand.
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INTEC Report 2024: Taking action in an hour of the brave
The introduction to the Report on 10 Emerging Technologies to Power Spain (INTEC 2024) puts the emphasis on mechanisms to turn ideas into real transformative action.
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Javier García urges to put the "high beams on" and increase the "speed" of change at the presentation of 'Innovation with a Future'.
The presentation event of the work "Innovation with a Future", which includes the report on technologies to promote the transformation of Spain prepared by the Rafael del Pino Chair in Science and Society, was attended by María del Pino, President of the Foundation, Antonio Garamendi (CEOE) and Javier García Martínez, Director of the Chair,...
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Felipe VI presents Javier García with the National Award for Research in Technology Transfer
The presentation of the National Research Awards 2023 took place in Gandia and was attended by King Felipe and Queen Leticia. At the event, the director of the Chair of Science and Society of the Rafael del Pino Foundation received the award in the category of Science and Society Transfer....
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Innovation with a Future', the key book for imagining the Spain of the next few years
On 6 March 'Innovación con Futuro' (Innovation with a Future), a book that reproduces the report on technologies to boost Spain, drawn up by the Rafael del Pino Foundation's Chair in Science and Society, under the direction of Javier García, and to which 15 leading experts in the scientific field have contributed....
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INTEC 2024 technology selection kicks off with expert committee meeting
The committee of experts who will participate in the proposal of the 10 technologies of the next INTEC 2024 report of the Rafael del Pino Foundation's Chair in Science and Society held the first preparatory meeting on Monday 5 February, which serves as a starting point for the final selection of the contents. The...
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Presentation of the INTEC 2023 report that brings together the ten key emerging technologies for innovation in Spain: "It's time for the brave".
Generative AI, mRNA vaccines, quantum revolution, smart textiles and fire fighting are some of the technologies featured in the report. The technologies were selected by 15 experts: 11 leading scientists, including seven national research laureates, and four from business.
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"The future belongs to those who are not afraid, to those who dare", speech by Javier García as doctor honoris causa of the University of La Rioja.
The director of the Rafael del Pino Foundation's Chair in Science and Society, Javier García Martínez, has just received an honorary doctorate from the University of La Rioja. For its interest, its beauty and its value as a testimony of the results that the confluence of research and entrepreneurial effort provides us with when it comes to...
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Javier García, National Research Award 2023 in Technology Transfer
The Ministry of Science and Innovation has announced the National Research Awards 2023, among which is the director of the Chair in Science and Society of the Rafael del Pino Foundation, whose "fundamental contributions in the field of nanomaterials chemistry" have been highlighted by the jury.
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Javier Garcia explains the potential of Flexible Batteries in WEF's 10 Emerging Technologies 2023 report
The World Economic Forum has presented its annual list of 10 Emerging Technologies with the greatest capacity to have a positive impact on the world. In the drafting of the transformative potential of one of them, Flexible Batteries, the director of the Rafael del Pino Foundation's Chair in Science and Society, Javier García, has taken part, together with...
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INTEC 2022 Report presented at the Transfiere Forum
Fransico Marín and Eugenio Mallol discuss the INTEC 2022 report of the Rafael del Pino Foundation's Chair in Science and Society at the Transfiere Forum, held from 15 to 17 February 2023 in Malaga. The report, entitled "Ten technologies to drive Spain forward", brings together a ten-point list of proposals for...
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INTEC 2022 Presentation
On 23 November, the Rafael del Pino Foundation hosted the presentation of the INTEC 2022 report, which lists the ten technologies capable of driving Spain towards the knowledge economy.