and the Mediterranean
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Institute of the Mediterranean
22@ Barcelona is a project that aims to fully integrate Barcelona in the new technological revolution of the knowledge economy. The Poblenou district, the main hub of Spanish industrialization during the 19th century, is today setting itself up as the leading economic and technological platform in Barcelona and Catalonia. Barcelona production expertise is changing rapidly: more than two-thirds of its exports now are high or medium-high technological goods. The future development of Barcelona depends on its ability to integrate new information and communications technologies and, of course, to intensify its knowledge-driven industrial activities and profit from them.