Other social sciences

  • The role of intellectual capital in technological innovation

    The role of intellectual capital in technological innovation

    On 30 March 2009, the Director of the Rafael del Pino Foundation signed a research agreement with Professors Gregorio Martín, Pedro López and Miriam Delgado for the development of the last part of a study entitled "The role of intellectual capital in technological innovation", which pursues the following objectives:

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  • Improving regulation to make it less burdensome

    Improving regulation to make it less burdensome

    On 17 March 2009, Professors Enrique Argullol and Andrés Betancor completed the research "Improving regulation to make it less onerous", developed thanks to the Research Agreement signed at the time between the Rector of the Pompeu Fabra University and the Director of the Rafael del Pino Foundation. The result of this...

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  • The Spanish Enlightenment in American Independence: Benjamin Franklin

    The Spanish Enlightenment in American Independence: Benjamin Franklin

    On the occasion of the third centenary of Benjamin Franklin's birth, the Rafael del Pino Foundation, in collaboration with the Spain-United States Council Foundation and the Royal Academy of History, organised a series of conferences entitled "The Spanish Enlightenment in the Independence of the United States: Benjamin Franklin", which was held from 11 to 19...

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  • Spanish America at the dawn of emancipation

    Spanish America at the dawn of emancipation

    On 17 March 2006, the Proceedings of the IX Congress of Ibero-American Academies of History, published by the Rafael del Pino Foundation in its History Collection under the title "La América Hispana en los albores de la emancipación", were presented at the Royal Academy of History. At the event...

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  • The history of the universe and of life

    The history of the universe and of life

    On 1 March 2004, the Rafael del Pino Foundation signed a collaboration agreement with the Carlos III Foundation for International Cooperation and Health, with the aim of developing the actions detailed below. In the first place, the collaboration between the two institutions has materialised in...

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  • The future of the European constitutional treaty

    The future of the European constitutional treaty

    The Rafael del Pino Foundation and the University Institute of European Studies of the CEU-San Pablo University signed a research agreement on 22 December 2006 with the aim of deepening the study, analysis and understanding of the Magna Carta of the European Union, as well as the future of the European Union...

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  • Normative analysis of public policies

    Normative analysis of public policies

    On 21 December 2005, the Foundation signed a research agreement with Professor Francisco Beltrán Adell, from the Department of Political Science and International Relations of the Autonomous University of Madrid, with the aim of analysing the social reality and Spanish and European policies in a global context, by means of the analysis of the...

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  • CYD Report

    CYD Report

    On 1 October 2003, the President of the Rafael del Pino Foundation, Rafael del Pino y Moreno, and the President of the Board of Trustees of the Fundación Conocimiento y Desarrollo (Fundación CYD), Ana Patricia Botín Sanz de Sautuola O'Shea, signed a collaboration agreement for the annual publication of the "CYD Report". This...

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  • Spain and America. Four Hundred Years after Don Quixote

    Spain and America. Four Hundred Years after Don Quixote

    On 29 May, Miguel Ángel Cortés, President of the Board of Trustees of the Fundación Carolina, Rafael del Pino y Moreno, President-Founder of the Fundación Rafael del Pino, and José Ángel Sánchez Asiaín, President of the Board of Trustees of the Fundación Colegio Libre de Eméritos Universitarios, signed a Collaboration Agreement for the joint implementation of the...

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  • Economic analysis of the administration of justice and litigation

    Economic analysis of the administration of justice and litigation

    On 20 September 2004, the Director of the Foundation and Professor Francisco Cabrillo signed a research agreement for the drafting of a book on the economic analysis of the administration of justice and litigation, which was published by a British publisher under the title "Economics of Courts and Litigation".

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  • The prize of being Viceroy

    The prize of being Viceroy

    With the sponsorship of the Foundation, the book "El premio de ser Virrey: los intereses públicos y privados del gobierno virreinal en el Perú de Felipe V", published by the CSIC and authored by Alfredo Moreno Cebrián (Professor of the University of Navarre), was presented on 17 November 2005 at the General Archive of Navarre,...

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  • The Crown of Aragon

    The Crown of Aragon

    On 19 April 2005, the Foundation decided to financially support the International Meeting entitled "The Crown of Aragon in the Spanish Monarchy", which brought together a group of specialists in Madrid to discuss various issues related to the role played by the territories of the Crown of Aragon in the Spanish Monarchy.

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