Gloria Alvarez

#Managementchino: de la multinacional a los #ecosistemas de #plataformas. Mesa redonda #China #Management #Chinabusinesss #estrategia #foresight #SemanaCienciaInnovacion @uc3m #video 📹 youtu.be/smZpTBQAW0A

A Chinese student created a website that maps British Museum artifacts to their countries of origin.

The Personal Networks and Communities Laboratory is participating in the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026 call for applications: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/hosting/h…. Check your eligibility before applying: b2match.com/e/radiance-msc… #LRPC #Jobs #MSCA

In China, there is a joke going around right now that, 2026 is apparently the Year One 元年 of literally everything: 1/ autonomous driving 2/ liquid cooling 3/ domestic HBM 4/ on-device AI 5/ solid-state batteries 6/ AI applications 7/ quantum computing 8/ compute-memory integrated chips 9/ brain-inspired computing 10/ the low-altitude economy 11/ commercial space 12/ humanoid robots 13/ silicon photonics 14/ controllable nuclear fusion Is there a frontier technology that ISN'T going to hockey stick / cambrian explode this year???

🚨 My NEW High Capacity piece 🚨 CHINA'S TECHNOLOGY LONG GAME What reading through China's Five-Year Plans reveals about its evolving tech strategy--and its plans for the industries of the future.

🗣"El teletrabajador es uno de los segmentos que más adopción de tecnologías tiene como la IA, a medida que teletrabajamos más usamos más las tecnología" Gloria Álvarez profesora de la Carlos III sobre el teletrabajo en las jornadas El poder del Trabajo en tiempos de algoritmos.

🗣 "Desde la Ley de teletrabajo en 2021 la valoración positiva del trabajo a distancia ha pasado de un 50% a un 70%". 🏛 Oscar Pérez Zapata profesor de la Pontífica de Comillas sobre el teletrabajo en las jornadas El poder del Trabajo en tiempos de algoritmos.

Almost over jetlag and finally finished my takeaways from my trip last week on new energy and robotics in China. The highlight was spending two days in Liyang, a city of 800,000 people about an hour from Shanghai that most people have never heard of. It's China's battery capital: hosts over 100 power battery companies including CATL's massive Jiangsu base, generates $14B in output and ~5% of global battery production. We visited 6 manufacturing facilities across the energy stack: power batteries, solid-state batteries, solar, transformers, EVs. A private investor wanted their group to understand how China actually manufactures at scale, not just sit in Beijing boardrooms. So that's what we did: spent most of our time on production lines. Here's what stood out.

@FundManantial @MutuaUniversal @SinewsMTI 👥 En la última mesa: “Claves para construir salud mental en las organizaciones”, moderada por Carina Liarte Zwaan (#INSST), participan Gloria Álvarez Hernández (@uc3m) y Pilar Losada Cirilo (@IKEAIbrica)

The book edited by @aespinosarada and myself, "Social Networks. Theory, Methods and Applications in Latin America" (in Spanish), is finally out! 🌟 libreria.cis.es/libros/redes-s… @chisocnet @lista_redes @SocNetAnalysts @WiNS_Society

I just read this WSJ article on why Europe's tech scene is so much smaller than the US's and China's. I'm afraid that, like most articles on this topic, it largely misses the mark. Which in itself illustrates a key reason why Europe is lagging behind: when you fail to understand the root causes of an issue, you have zero chance to solve it. What makes me competent to speak on this topic? Back in the late 2000s and early 2010s, I founded and led HouseTrip which at the time was one of Europe's top startups. We were the first historical startup in which all top 3 VC investors in Europe invested. So I have a pretty intimate knowledge of the European entrepreneurship ecosystem and what it takes to create and grow a tech company in Europe. We were pretty promising as a startup. In fact as promising as it can possibly get. We had a similar concept to Airbnb (with some notable differences I won't bore you with), except we created the company 1 year before they did. Which means we were the first-mover - globally - with a multi-billion-euro concept, strong financial backing by the 3 top investors in Europe and, at some point, a team of 250 people with some of the brightest minds in tech in Europe. Everything we needed to succeed. And yet we didn't succeed: ultimately we were essentially crushed by our American competitor Airbnb in our home turf - Europe - and we had no choice but to sell ourselves to another American company, Tripadvisor. Believe me, I've reflected long and hard on how that could have happened. In fact after I left the company in 2015 I even spent 3 months in isolation in the Annapurna mountains in Nepal to reflect full time on exactly that 😅 And I then moved to China, where I spent the next 8 years and where I had the chance to study their ecosystem to understand why they're successful and Europe isn't. So all in all, I think I have some degree of legitimacy to comment on this topic. The WSJ article says that Europe lags behind due to the usual suspects, the reasons you constantly hear about: too much regulation, fragmented European markets, limited access to financing, a culture that isn't conducive to the startup grind, etc. Some of those are true, but imho all are secondary. Take excessive regulations for instance, which gets mentioned all the time. If they were such a hindrance to startups, why would American startups succeed in Europe - like Airbnb in our case - and European startups not? We all face the same regulations 🤷 Or take fragmented markets. Same question: how could US startups successfully conquer these fragmented EU markets when European startups can't? Because that's the real elephant in the room, and really the story of the European tech scene since the advent of the internet: US startups have shown a remarkable ability to capture European markets despite the supposed barriers, making many of the "usual suspects" explanations for Europe's tech struggles very unconvincing. In other words, logically, any explanation where both US and European startups face identical barriers fails to address the fundamental difference in outcomes we consistently observe. Based on my experience, the key problem faced by European startups can be summarized in one word: patriotism. There is virtually none in Europe, and more than anything that's what's killing EU startups, or preventing them from developing. It used to drive me absolutely nuts at HouseTrip. What a startup needs first and foremost, especially a consumer-facing startup like we were, is marketing, to become famous. At first, when I created the company and before Airbnb was even a thing, I used to pitch the company to the media and the general response I would get was almost one of contempt, as in "why would I belittle myself to write about your startup? And furthermore, who would be stupid enough to stay in an apartment when there are hotels? You guys have no future..." And then Airbnb got launched and the American media started their thing, hyping the company like it was the greatest innovation since sliced bread, like they were national heroes, giving them hundreds of millions in free publicity. That's when European media started to take notice. Not of us, god forbid, but of Airbnb. The concept was promoted by Silicon Valley, see... so now it was valid. So I went back to pitch HouseTrip to European media. This time around I was met with a different kind of contempt: "So you guys are like Airbnb? Why would we cover a European copycat when we can just write about the real American original?" Luckily I'm not violent but lets say those moments really tested my civility 😅 All in all, we arrived in the absolutely grotesque situation where, despite Airbnb not having yet set foot in Europe, they were already a cultural phenomenon there, promoted by European media, for free, when the European original - yours truly - had to spend millions on paid marketing (mostly to Google and Facebook, American companies) to achieve a small fraction of the brand recognition. Which means that, insanely, Airbnb was probably doing more business in Europe than we did before even opening an office there, simply on the back of the free publicity they were getting. How on earth can you even compete with that? This dynamic was at play with general European elites too. I remember very clearly having dinner next to a legendary European entrepreneur and investor - who I won't name, a man who supposedly, on paper, is dedicating his life to furthering the European tech ecosystem. We naturally got to talk about HouseTrip and he literally told me, and this is an exact quote: "you know I don't really like copycats, they really hurt the European ecosystem." Another big test for my civility that night... And even if we had been a copycat, so what? That's how China got started, there's nothing to be ashamed of. You need to learn to walk before you can run. In fact if you study the history of innovation you'll find that every major tech power, including the US, started by imitating and adapting others' innovations before developing their own. Speaking of China, again a country that I know in depth for having lived there for 8 years after HouseTrip, I've come to the conclusion that patriotism, a deeply rooted mindset of sovereignty, is truly the magic ingredient behind their success. Contrary to popular belief, they don't do it in a stupid way by just banning competition. Those cases are actually very rare and only occur if the companies in question violate Chinese law in pretty egregious ways. Most of the time it's the exact contrary: they welcome foreign companies and competition, but create conditions where local alternatives can thrive alongside them, giving Chinese users and businesses legitimate options to choose domestic champions. Which means you end up with, for instance, Apple doing well in China but simultaneously allowing the rise of Huawei or Xiaomi. Or Tesla doing well in China but simultaneously allowing the rise of BYD or Nio. Etc. And China is, interestingly, more comparable to the EU than most people realize. It is, again contrary to popular belief, extremely decentralized when it comes to doing business, with various provinces competing against each other much the same way EU countries compete against each other. But they do it in such a way where, again, the overarching sense of Chinese sovereignty never gets sacrificed at the altar of provincial competition. And where the ultimate goal is to develop Chinese champions which can successfully compete on the global stage. So there you have it, the dirty little secret behind Europe's lag. We're essentially witnessing a "colonization of the minds" whereby Europe has structurally internalized its technological inferiority, celebrating American startups while dismissing its own homegrown companies. Why does this barely ever get talked about? Think about it: do you seriously think that the Wall Street Journal would start advocating for, essentially, policies hostile to American tech dominance? Much better to focus on the usual red herrings like too much regulation or fragmentation which, conveniently, would primarily result in clearing obstacles for American tech giants to dominate European markets even further, rather than nurturing homegrown competitors. This article is, in itself, an illustration of the "colonization of the minds".

🟦Comienza el Debate. EXPERIENCIAS DE HOSPITALISMO Y COMANAGEMENT EN España. Modera: @MHospitalista Hablamos de comanagement o asistencia compartida, los beneficios del trabajo integrado multidisciplinar y las 5 claves del modelo de trabajo hospitalista con el Dr. Felipe Lucena Ramírez, Dr. Diego Moreno Ramírez-Cardenas y  Dra. Cristina Villamor Jiménez.  #Hospitalismo #Comanagement #MedicinaInterna #45SEMI

👩‍⚕️Cristina Villamor de @MHospitalista expone sus ideas clave tras hablar sobre 🟦Minimizando el impacto de la cirugía: estrategias de estratificación del riesgo y atención personalizada en #45SEMI 🔸Los internistas podemos EVALUAR y OPTIMIZAR al paciente prequirúrgico complejo. Anticipándonos a riesgos postoperatorios. 🔸Las Escalas de riesgo quirúrgico, Nutricionales, de funcionalidad y fragilidad nos permiten: medir el estado del paciente, transmitir la información entre profesionales y enfocarnos en los problemas principales que presenta para actuar sobre ellos. 🔸En un mundo 2.0 como el actual todas estas herramientas las tenemos en la mano. #hospitalismo #comanagement

Mil gracias a todos Many thanks to all Merci beaucoup à tous Grazie mille à tutti 谢谢大家 شكرا لكم جميعا תודה לכולכם Obrigado a todos Vielen Dank euch allen Tack alla Хвала свима Gràcies a tots

Este es posiblemente el artículo que mejor describe cómo se ha ido constituyendo la revista REDES revistes.uab.cat/redes/article/… #sna #ars

En Cinefórum #ENMT e #INSST titulado la transformación digital en evolución hacia la industria 5.0. Señala Gloria Álvarez “Prioritario dar importancia a los riesgos psicosociales y los cambios”. “Priorizar la salud” #saludmental 🎥 insst.es/noticias-insst…

Cinefórum #ENMT @SaludISCIII y @INSST_MITES_GOB @EU_OSHA #RESST #EUHealthyWorklaces 🗣️Presentación cortos por Gloria Álvarez @uc3m y Arturo Lahera @unicomplutense en mesa con Miguel Canales @cepyme_ Begoña Aparicio @CEOE_ES Carmen Mancheño @SaludLab_CCOO y Ramón Gil @UGT_Comunica

🎥¡Este jueves no te pierdas el Cinefórum Antonio Iniesta! 👥Con un debate sobre la transformación digital del trabajo 📍 Presencial: ISCIII 📺Virtual: Canal de YouTube @SaludISCIII 🔗Inscríbete → run.gob.es/pdj75548 #INSST #RESST #EUhealthyworkplaces @EU_OSHA

@INSST_MITES_GO y la Escuela Nacional de Medicina del Trabajo, organizan la 4ª edición del Cinefórum Antonio Iniesta. 🗓️20/06/2024 🏢Presencial y streaming. El tema central es "la transformación digital en evolución hacia la industria 5.0" Información 👇 insst.es/noticias-insst…

Gloria Álvarez Hernández @guirepso: "La tecnología debería venir como los medicamentos, con la dosis recomendada" heraldo.es/noticias/econo… vía @heraldoes

@isidromj Muchas felicidades Isidro! 👏🏻

Carmen Tabernero, Maribel Hombrados, Isabel Cuadrado, Manuel García y Quico Medina en el tribunal de la plaza de Catedrático de Psicología Social a la que concurrí ayer. Gracias a todos los que me habéis acompañado.