Biotech’s risk profile is shifting
Biotechnology and risk have always been synonymous. But now those risks are evolving and growing, exposing companies to fresh hazards.
Microsoft France’s start-up programme
opens first innovation centre
Microsoft start-up programme Idées is going local in Lille – a prelude to going local globally.
National governments ‘lukewarm’ on ERA
The responses to plans to create a single European Research Area raise the spectre of more red tape and reduced competition.
The big plan for an EU Small Business Act
France’s EU presidency will push a Small Business Act for innovative start-ups. Former French secretary of state Lionel Stoleru sketches out some details.
Nanomedicine: Going small for big results
By carefully manipulating materials at the nanoscale, researchers hope to devise more effective and personalised medical diagnostics and therapies.
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European ICT: innovation is the key
An exclusive focus on regulatory issues means we are ignoring a crucial longer-term question: the global competitiveness of the European ICT sector, says Martin Fransman.
A new model for university/industry collaboration in Europe, maybe?
A new approach to collaboration in research sounds like it would serve Europe well. And, Nuala Moran discovers, the model is being pioneered by a European company.
Waiting for an ERA
R&D Commissioner Janez Potocnik is keen to see his country, Slovenia, advancing the European Research Area during its EU Presidency. But, asks Nuala Moran, is the necessary momentum there?












