Catalonia retreats slightly in the incorporation of new commercial companies in August. Business creation has decreased by 1.1% in year-on-year terms in the Principality in the eighth month of the year, according to data published this Tuesday by the National Statistics Institute (INE). Thus, in the analyzed period, 1,469 new businesses were incorporated in the country. Despite the retreat, it is the fourth best figure for an August in the historical series, surpassed only by the two previous years, 2025 and 2024, and by 2016.

A major problem for innovation to advance in Spain and for start-ups to make the leap is the lack of capital to finance this transcendental step to succeed in having technological giants. Furthermore, added to this is the fact that resources from investors – the funds and venture and private capital needed for this – are being directed massively towards defense, at the behest of demands from NATO and the United States, for countries to allocate a larger proportion of their budget to these activities.

The Catalan biopharmaceutical Ona Therapeutics has closed a Series B funding round of 74.2 million euros to continue developing its cancer treatments. The new capital injection has been co-led by Valencian investor Columbus Venture Partners and French manager Mérieux Equity Partners, in addition to the public Cofides and the family office Korys. Current partners also participated: Asabys Partners, Alta Life Sciences, Bpifrance, CDTI, FundPlus NV, and Ysios Capital.

In many Catalan Assistance Centers (it's not clear what type) professionals (from numerous branches, but they're not trees) encounter quite a few cases that raise questions. Infection? Disease? Plague? Endemic? Mutation? Lobotomy? Yeah, why aren't more and more Catalans from outside the territory going to Barcelona?

Feeling dizzy in the face of technological developments is stupid. That's how the techno-optimist manifesto that went viral in 2023 makes you feel. A document promoted by Marc Andreessen, a serial entrepreneur known for being the father of the Netscape browser and Facebook. This manifesto uses an epic tone to present a series of statements based on the premise that technological progress is the only hope for humanity's great problems. To save humanity, it is necessary to let entrepreneurs do their work, in complete freedom, trusting in the proper functioning of free markets that have proven over time to adapt and evolve. This manifesto enthrones money as the driving force of economic growth that cannot be stopped. From the perspective of the manifesto, thinking about the social consequences, possible inequalities, or injustices, are unjustified fears that only make it more difficult. In fact, the document describes regulation, sustainability, social responsibility, and ethics as "zombie ideas," a remnant of communism.