2015eko uztailean %4,7 handitu zen Euskadiren industria produkzioa 2014ko hil beraren aldean. Urteko lehen zazpi hilabeteetan %3,4 hazi da indize hori.
La compañía vasca especializada en el desarrollo de sistemas avanzados para la fabricación de envases Urola ha diseñado una nueva tecnología que permitirá manufacturar envases de plástico más ergonómicos.
El sistema, denominado deep grip, aporta una mayor flexibilidad en la ubicación del asa de los envases de politereftalato de etileno (PET) y también en su forma y diámetro. Además, logra más rigidez estructural y resistencia y permite diseñar asas ergonómicas que permiten sujetar, transportar y verter de una forma más fácil el contenido.
Back in May, Tesla turned heads when it announced its plans for a new battery product, which would allow homes and large-scale commercial operations to store energy from solar panels or serve as a backup power source during grid outages.
And now, a new report released Wednesday highlights the leaps and bounds this new industry— dubbed energy storage — is making, and predicts its continued growth in the coming year.
The boom in healthcare investments and exits continued in the first half of 2015, driven by the large appetite of non-VC crossover investors for biopharma and device companies preparing for an IPO. This signals that 2015 will mark the third consecutive year of strong activity for the healthcare sector, according to the mid-year update of Silicon Valley Bank’s Trends in Healthcare Investments and Exits.
In the five years since it was founded, Mountain View, CA-based Scanadu has been blessed with a groundswell of support from some pretty diverse groups—ordinary folks, elite investors, Web innovators, and even Trekkies.
Your doctor may not want your Fitbit numbers, or so read a recent VentureBeat story. Perhaps many of us doctors are working so hard to figure out how to get reimbursed by Obamacare that we don’t have the time to think about disruptive technologies.
That’s a pity, as the Affordable Care Act – while transformative – is not the only structural force taking hold in healthcare. The other major trend is the move to a precision medicine model, one that will welcome Fitbits and whatever other wearable technologies hit the market in the future.
According to the CB Insights’ real time unicorn tracker there are 16 financial technology startups that have reached unicorn status, i.e. are valued at more than $1B. The aggregate valuation of all 16 of these fin tech companies equals almost $49B, which is roughly 10% of the aggregate value of all 130 unicorns as of August 27, 2015.
The palette of materials that can be used as 3-D printing “ink” is quickly growing in diversity, but one ubiquitous material has, until now, been absent: transparent glass.
It’s already possible to use tiny granules of glass in a powder bed with conventional 3-D printing techniques like jetting and sintering, but the products turn out opaque. Now researchers at MIT have demonstrated the first-ever machine that can print molten glass through a nozzle and make transparent glass objects layer by layer according to digital instructions.
Behind the success of the new wave of location based mobile apps taking hold around the world is digital mapping. Location data is core to popular ride-sharing services such as Uber and Lyft, but also to companies such as Amazon or Domino’s Pizza, which are testing drones for faster deliveries.
In the biggest deal ever for an Israeli medical device company – and one of the biggest in any industry in Israel – Massachusetts-based HeartWare International is acquiring Israeli biotech start-up Valtech Cardio.
According to the terms of the agreement, Valtech shareholders will receive some six million shares of HeartWare stock in incremental stages over the next year, depending on milestones. Between the stock transfers and cash payments that accompany several of the milestones, the deal is worth more than $900 million, and could reach as much as a billion dollars.
