La Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) és una universitat jove i dinàmica que, des que es va crear, l'any 1991, ha destacat pel seu compromís amb el desenvolupament del territori i el benestar de la societat. El poder de les idees. Impactes de la URV sobre la societat és un exponent de la importància estratègica de les universitats públiques per garantir el progrés social i econòmic del nostre país. En concret, aquests vint anys de vida de la URV mostren un intens dinamisme territorial i un fort compromís amb la formació i la recerca. Aquesta contribució a la societat s'aborda des de tres vessants: com a institució que té un volum de despesa que afecta la producció i l'ocupació de la resta d'activitats productives, com a instrument estratègic de canvi territorial i, també, com a institució responsable de l'educació superior i de la recerca que beneficia les empreses i agents locals gràcies als efectes externs que es deriven de la difusió del coneixement i la circulació de les idees.

Geohistorical sources, among which are those of the catastral and paracatastral type, generally have greater heterogeneity and typological variety than in their current versions. Thus, research with geohistorical sources, approached from multiple disciplines (Geography, History, Art, Anthropology, Environmental Sciences, Urban Planning, Architecture, Demography...) represents a great boost for the analysis, knowledge and study of the territory, of landscapes and society from a spatiotemporal perspective. This publication with the title Geohistorical sources, new technologies, new challenges was born from the 1st lnternational Congress of Geohistorical Sources: territory and society in time will focus on relevant topics: the application of this type of sources in studies of various typologies; the methodological contributions or the generation of work standards applicable to catastral and para-catastral sources from different areas and periods; didactics around geohistorical sources; the promotion of these sources through the use of new technologies in the field of Humanities and Social Sciences; the study and analysis of catastral, paracatastral, statistical and cartographic documentation whose objective is to know the characteristics of the sources themselves and their contents, etc. In short, this scientific meeting and its subsequent publication in collaboration with the publishers of the University of Cantabria and the Autonomous University of Madrid has the objective of serving as a platform for researchers and technicians who are developing approaches about the purpose of each source, what ideological, political, social and economic circumstances motivated them, what their contents can be used for today, what data are collected and with what criteria they are aggregated and elaborated, what documents are prepared directly and indirectly and, finally, with what human resources, with what techniques they were built and with what technical, human and contextual resources they were developed.

The earliest published study on entrepreneurial women is credited to Schwartz (1976). Subsequently, various female researchers (Hisrich and Brush, 1984; Cromie, 1987; Kaplan, 1988;) started to examine the possible differences that could be derived from gender. The analysis of the features of entrepreneurial women is now a subject of discussion due to the fact that the results obtained so far are not conclusive. While Hisrich and Brush find significant differences related to gender (attitudes, motives), Buttner and Rosen (1988) do not find disparities for being man or woman, but due to mere organisational questions such as the type of business. On the other hand, Gatewood, Brush et al. (2008) detail the differences and myths related to the growth - venture capital- of women's entrepreneurial activity. All things considered, the activity and behaviour of entrepreneurial women is still controversial as it is a relatively recent issue and one from which homogeneous results have not yet been obtained. Along these lines, new contributions in different societies and territorial areas - including regions- allow researchers to penetrate more profoundly into this subject matter and discover new ideas and conclusions that provoke academic debate and offer suggestions for new policies. This research, which at first provides a specific review of the most relevant literature, investigates the perception of Spanish entrepreneurial women's activity, not only concerning the characterisation of their personal features - using specific surveys-, but also from the perspective of their performance in the activity - by comparing the entrepreneurial results over a specific period, including an expansion stage and a (more recent) recession stage. Comparatively speaking, certain control groups of the whole economy are chosen, by regions and sectors, which allows a counterfactual methodology, and statistical and econometric methods are used to refine the analysis. The results and conclusions broaden the understanding of the facts and provide evidence of which could be considered to be differences and which remains to be seen as myths of the entrepreneurial development of women in a Mediterranean country.

El objetivo de este trabajo ha sido el análisis de la movilidad empresarial a lo largo de los diferentes sectores de la economía según la cnae-93 a un digito. Algunos de los hechos estilizados hallados se relacionan con; la relación inversa entre crecimiento empresarial y edad de la empresa, el incremento de la media del tamaño relativo en términos de ventas de las empresas entrantes en relación a las establecidas, a través de las diferentes industrias y las diferentes cohortes, la importancia del tamaño inicial en la actividad emprendedora, los efectos favorables de la economía en el crecimiento empresarial o la no concentración de la estructura de propiedad en relación a una mayor movilidad.