Investors search for returns in Personalised Medicine
The investment remains the same but the market is smaller. So how is Personalised Medicine to be financed?
ACES: Water treatment made easy
With 20 years of experience behind him, ACES winner Nigel Brown believes companies today spend too much money - and energy - on water purification.
Former dean: ‘mistake’ was made, but dismissal ‘out of proportion’
Karl Tryggvason admits a ‘mistake’ but tells Science|Business it wasn’t a sacking offence.
EIT money starts to flow
The first €1M grants from the EIT will be signed next week. Now the real work begins, chairman Martin Schuurmans tells Science|Business.
Digital Agenda
Europe is always an also-ran in ICT: New Commissioner Neelie Kroes tells Science|Business how she plans to reverse two decades of failure.
The geography of knowledge
The old established centres are being challenged by the emergence of new poles of world science and innovation. But could this benefit Europe, the US and Japan?
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Europe 2020: Let them eat words
A new ‘vision’ from Brussels offers something for everyone - including research and innovation. But in the end, it comes off as empty rhetoric, writes Science|Business Editor Richard L. Hudson.
Patent problems
R&D is changing, the function of intellectual property is changing. But patent systems are failing to respond, says EPO President Alison Brimelow.
Born or made?
Is entrepreneurship innate, or can the requisite skills be taught? Speakers at the Science|Business ACES awards had differing views, writes Michael Kenward.
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