On this day the Minister of Education, Ángel Gabilondo, presented the everis Foundation awards to the two winners: the entrea regenerative medicine firm called Ebers, in the entrepreneurs category and the Essay prize going to the authors of the book "The end of the crisis?

everis Foundation, chaired by former Minister Eduardo Serra, firmly believes that both these awards are a valuable contribution to society and promote the spirit of entrepreneurship. The Call for Participants of this most recent award received more than 100 projects.

The award ceremony was attended by over 200 dignitaries from academia, politics and the business world and featured as Guest Speaker the former Spanish Prime Minister, Felipe González, who gave a reading on the relationship of Spain with Europe and Latin America.

A regenerative medicine and tissue engineering firm called Ebers has won the Entrepreneurship Award. This young biotech company, founded in June 2009, is dedicated to the design, manufacture and marketing of laboratory equipment for regenerative medicine and tissue engineering, receiving the prize with a value of  € 60,000.

The two main driving forces behind the company are Pedro Moreno, CEO, and Victor Alastrué, director of R&D, both Industrial Engineers.  Angel Sampietro, a dentist and physician specialising in craniofacial deformities as well as shareholder and clinical and medical consultant at "Ebers", is the third key figure in this firm.

The company manufactures bioreactors, laboratory equipment that allows cultivation of cells for prolonged periods thus growing tissue required for the regeneration of bone and blood vessels.

In addition to controlling variables such as culture temperature, this equipment ensures proper distribution of nutrients within the tissue and mechanically stimulates the cells in the same way as they are stimulated in the human body.

 

The unique architecture of this range of bioreactors ensures excellent flexibility, because with minimal investment, the same equipment can be reused for the regeneration of various tissues.

The Entrepreneurship Award is designed to facilitate the financing of business projects that meet the criteria of innovation, feasibility and benefit to society.

A  book discussing and analysing key issues of the economic crisis has won the everis Foundation Essay Award worth €24,000.

The book entitled  “The End of the Crisis?”, written by  Leopoldo Torralba, Ignacio de la Torre and Bárbara Huerta of the IE Business School won the everis Foundation Essay Prize worth  € 24,000. It analyses the causes of the current economic crisis in its various aspects,  such as accounting, fiscal and economic policy. It looks at the Spanish case and at potential solutions to end the crisis.

The authors hope that the book will provide the reader with clarity and therefore suggest strategies for entrepreneurs and financial institutions on what may be the future of Spanish and global banking. The text is also aimed at policymakers, students of economics,  and of general graduate and professional courses who wish to read about aspects of investments of savings, spending levels or future debts.

This everis Foundation Award aims to recognize those business policies which represent a novel way of analysing the role companies play in the dynamics of social change.