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In the five years since it was established, 60 start-ups have made the final of the Science|Business Academic Enterprise Awards. The progress of these alumni throws a spotlight on the effort and dedication needed to make a commercial success of a university spin-out

Design may support widespread use of solar and wind energy

A patented breakthrough in lightweight concrete structures – inspired by the human body – has big environmental benefits, cutting consumption of concrete while reducing energy use and CO2 by up to 50 per cent

It’s hard to save electricity when you don’t know where it’s going. Qualisteo’s Wattseeker reads the fingerprints of electrical systems to make monitoring energy use easier and less costly

EBI & Berkeley Lab show that not all microbes are alike when it comes to making enzymes with improved properties

A total of 287 researchers are in line to receive €400 million in the final round of starting grants awarded under Framework Programme 7

Crop-based biofuels, once the poster child of EU environmental policy, are no longer to be the main vehicle for reaching clean transport targets. While environmentalists welcome investment in advanced biofuels and renewable energy, industry craves greater regulatory certainty

From acceleration programmes to hands-on support; encouraging every student to pinpointing true entrepreneurs; and from tech transfer strategies to using dating agency algorithms in the search for the perfect industrial partner – how universities can have spin-out success

Patented signal processing techniques developed at EPFL help slash energy consumption in electronic devices and increase data transmission speed

As energy consumption for transport in cities is expected to double by 2050, report sees potential savings of up to USD 70 trillion