Éanna Kelly

Why big pharma is turning to text mining

As the volume of information soars, it is no longer enough to search for papers - researchers need computers to read and analyse them too, says Jon Hill, computational biologist at Boehringer Ingelheim
01 Mar 2016

Time to learn from failure

From outright farce while on field work, to rejected grant applications, missing the primary endpoint in a clinical trial and the prototype that did not fly – the mishaps, the unexpected and the unwanted results - should be a source of learning
25 Feb 2016

Entrepreneurship education on the increase in Europe

Teaching schoolchildren the skills to turn creative ideas into entrepreneurial action is on the rise, with the most comprehensive entrepreneurship education in place in Nordic countries and Estonia. However, the subject is not entrenched in the curriculum
25 Feb 2016