Michael Kenward

Persistence, skill, and salesmanship are needed for academic entrepreneurs to succeed in this climate, say experts.

Innovation strategies have to fit in with local conditions, especially in small countries, and even more so ‘on the edge of the world’.

The financial crisis calls for bold measures and new types of funding to enhance Europe’s capacity to innovate, say leading thinkers.

GE Healthcare reckons that innovation happens more quickly if researchers from different laboratories pool their ideas.

Part three of our series on clusters looks at Cambridge, the region that gave us the term ‘innovation cluster’.

Radiologists are in short supply in parts of Europe. Telemedicine Clinic solves the problem by remote control, with a network of doctors who diagnose patients on the basis of medical images that arrive by email.

Unimpressed by the diagnostic tools available to treat breast cancer, Oxford engineering professor Mike Brady started to work on medical imaging.

What possessed an eminent Edinburgh researcher to leave the senior common room and get hooked on starting new businesses?

A Karolinska researcher decided to borrow ideas from computer games to treat children suffering from attention disorders – and ended up founding a company.

A new report describes the spread of the "global innovation network" model.