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Capture and build on the best examples of entrepreneurship
The finalists of ACES 2013 are proof that Europe has the ingredients to create the best of high tech start-ups, while their founders are inspiring entrepreneur role models. But more support is needed to help others learn from – and build on – these exemplars
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From ideas to products: time to create a single market for innovation
If Europe is serious about boosting innovation it needs to create a single market for innovation, reducing bureaucracy, allowing greater cross-border cooperation and promoting the development and mobility of skills, says leading industrialist Nani Beccalli-Falco
Stronger government and private sector push need to deliver a single digital market
Support at EU institution-level will not be enough to secure the digital single market. It’s time for public administration to "make the digital switchover" says Pilar del Castillo Vera, MEP and Rapporteur for the Report on a New Digital Agenda for Europe
Put science at the heart of the reform agenda in the Middle East
Research, innovation and entrepreneurship are vital to reshape economies and deliver on the promise of the Arab Spring, say Thomas Andersson and Abdelkader Djeflat
EU Presidency hopeful of agreement on Horizon 2020
Funding model “red line” for Council, but compromises in other areas may be enough to secure agreement, say Irish officials
LERU calls for equal partnership in IMI 2
The League of European Research Universities has once again hit out at IP rules and funding levels in the EU’s Innovative Medicines Initiative, saying academics will be discouraged from taking part in the €2B collaborative research programme
Removing the barriers to Big Data
There are fine lines to tread – and regulatory, technical and cultural obstacles to negotiate – to protect the IP rights that underpin commercialisation and defend individual privacy when opening up and interconnecting Big Data stores

Chalmers Formula student car of 2013 unveiled
This is it, the car to defend Chalmers world championship colours in the Formula Student race at Silverstone on the 3rd...
New Cambridge Centre will bring together frontier physics research and the needs of industry
A centrepiece building for exploratory ‘blue skies’ research and industrial partnerships in the physical sciences will be created at the University...
UCL awarded £11.1M towards new Institute of Immunity and Transplantation
UCL has been awarded £11.1 million from the UK Research Partnership Investment Fund (UKRPIF) towards the cost of the new UCL...




Making industry-university partnerships work
Research Report
18 June 2012
Investor Driven Innovation
Research Report
21 February 2012
Open Innovation and Public Policy in Europe
Research Report
6 December 2011
Government data can create jobs, innovation expert says
Press release
5 December 2011
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Innovation Intelligence
A Grace Period for Patents
Could it help European universities innovate? A survey of university tech transfer offices across Europe.
Inside the mind of European academic entrepreneurs
Perceptions of ACES finalists about the process of science entrepreneurship.
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Horizon 2020: Special Coverage
Horizon 2020 Special Coverage
Events
Live reporting: GE’s Minds+Machines event
Science|Business will be reporting live from GE's Mind+Machines Europe 2013 event in London.
Battersea Power Station, London - 19 June 2013
The race to produce low-carbon cars – which technology will win?
Many technologies are under development, from electric cars and fuel cells to cellulosic biofuels, but none yet are cost-effective and market uptake is stymied.
British Residence, Park Royal, Brussels - 21 June 2013
Futures Webinar with Big Data expert John Wood [partner event]
Gain insight and expert perspective on the challenges and opportunities created by Big Data applications across research, healthcare and business with the co-chair of Europe's new Research Data Alliance.
Online Webinar - 24 June 2013
Energy Futures: Towards Trans-Atlantic cooperation on Low-Carbon Energy Supply
A Science|Business Webcast conference – in collaboration with the Transatlantic Policy Network and GE
Brussels - 01 July 2013
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Smarter Data: Webcast with Neelie Kroes
What are the opportunities, obstacles and solutions to making public and private data work harder for us all, in healthcare, energy and other domains?

How to ensure energy supplies underground can be tapped in the future
Known hydrocarbon resources are sufficient to sustain economic growth for the foreseeable future, but developing those resources – and bringing them...
ETI seeks partners to develop gearbox & engine air charging systems to increase HDV efficiency
The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) is seeking partners - major companies, academics and SMEs to help develop a new type of...
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