Science|Business Reporting

24 academic entrepreneurs have been chosen as among the best in Europe in the first ACES Academic Enterprise Awards competition.

Whether someone will become an entrepreneur may be down to whether they make risky decisions. And for those without this innate ability, teaching or drugs could help enhance entrepreneurial skills.

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) announced that a new centre for neuroprostheses will open its doors in January 2009 with backing from the Bertarelli Foundation and the Defitech Foundation.

Philips Research has opened a new research lab on the Cambridge Science Park.

The UK has brought in new rules it says will make it easier to get permissions to carry out clinical trials of medical devices, such as hip and knee replacements, pacemakers and stents.