This article examines how being motivated by disease prevention (“safety”)
or pleasure promotion (“pleasure”) shapes the way people construe sexual
health and pursue their sexual goals.
What are the decisive factors in a country's research and innovation
systems? What about the links between science and business? We present the
new Dossier of the Social Observatory of the "la Caixa" Foundation.
Portugal, together with Denmark, is an exception within the framework of
the EU-27 and has percentages of women scientists and engineers that
slightly exceed the European average.
In Portugal and Spain, the proportion of innovative companies, and the
degree to which these collaborate with other companies and organisations,
is below the EU-27 average
In Portugal and Spain, only 6% of PhD holders work in the business sector.
There is a broad margin for improvement in the relationship between science
and business.
In the current context of the COVID-19 pandemic, technologies such as the
mobile phone are a double-edged sword. The results of this study show that,
on the one hand, problematic use of mobile technologies is associated with
lower levels of well-being among young adults. On the other hand,
Portuguese young adults believe that mobile technologies have been
essential to their well-being through the lockdowns and social distancing
rules triggered by the pandemic.