Editorial
Globalization, mass access to information and competition to win over talent have made the companies’ traditional business model obsolete, causing a change in their organizations. Henry Chesbrough, professor in Berkeley, was one of the first who bet on overthrowing preconceived ideas about business innovation, coining the term “open innovation”.
Lately, big pharmaceutical companies have cast doubt upon their own business models due to the increase of costs and risks, the need to understand patients better and the chance to gain access to better tools, technologies and ideas. 
KIMbcn and Biopol'H organized last thursday June 17th the first breakfast of Henry Chesbrough with managers of pharmaceutical companies. During the event professor Chesbrough explained the model of open innovation and gave some examples of its aplication in pharmaceutical industry.
Professor Henry Chesbrough is PhD in Administration and Public Policies for Hass School of Business, University of California, MBA for Stanford University and BA for Yale University. Chesbrough is the creator and [+ photos]
Manel Esteller, director of the program of Epigenetics and Cancer Biology of IDIBELL, has been awarded for a work that discovered a connection between overgrowth and cancer. This project opens many doors for new treatments against various diseases caused by mutations in genes regulating the size of tissues and cell proliferation.
The award given to Manel Esteller is in the research category of the sixth edition of the Health Sciences Award of the Foundation of Caja Rural de Granada. The awards
Santiago Nofuentes, chief operating officer of Consorci Sanitari Integral - the Holistic Health Consortium – has presented the results of the implementation of Lean Healthcare method in different CSI centers in 2009, as well as the goals set for 2010 in Sant Joan Despí Moisès Broggi Hospital. In the coming weeks it will be done in the other centers, first in Barcelona and in Hospitalet de Llobregat later on, covering the three CSI’s areas of reference with it.
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A scientific study led by Genevieve Buckland and Carlos Alberto Gonzalez Svatetz from the Nutrition, Environment and Cancer Unit at ICO-IDIBELL has been the winner of the 23rd Ediciones Mayo Awards 2010 in the category of best Spanish article published in a foreign magazine.
The article, entitled "Adherence to a Mediterranean diet and Risk of gastric adenocarcinoma within the European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) cohort study", was published in The American Journal
Site: Campus de Bellvitge, Universidad de Barcelona, computer room S-102A
Time: 9.00-13.00hr. and 15.00-19.00hr.
Organizes: Gabriel Pons
Professor: Eric Martz (UMass, Amherst)
Site: Aula Cancer Center. ICO Hospitalet
Time: 8.15hr.
Lecturer: Nadia Collet
Activity: Inside of the cycle of conferences about Psychosocial Attention and Coordination in Cancer
Site: Aula Cancer Center. ICO Hospitalet
Time: 8.15hr.
Lecturer: Yolanda Valverde
Activity: Inside of the cycle of conferences about Psychosocial Attention and Coordination in Cancer
Site: Hospital Universitario de Bellvitge
Dates: November, 1st to 3rd
Organizes: European Renal and Cardiovascular Medicine Group with the support of the Spanish Society of Nephrology and Bellvitge´s University Hospital.
