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Invalidating two biomarker patents could hold back the commercial development of personalized medicine

EVO Electric has applied novel technology to develop motors that combine high power with low weight, promising to increase the efficiency and appeal of electric cars and reduce CO2 emissions from hybrid petrol/electric cars

Henry Chesbrough, leading scholar of ‘open innovation’, to form European Innovation Forum to improve the management of innovation in Europe. In collaboration with ESADE Business School and Science|Business Innovation Board.

The academic ‘father’ of open innovation is launching a European forum for it, in collaboration with the Science|Business Innovation Board. Henry Chesbrough discusses the European challenges.

Business schools can spur entrepreneurship through curriculum and culture. The key is to create an environment that encourages team learning and student initiative, allowing the entrepreneurial mindset to blossom, says INSEAD dean Dipak C. Jain

In one of the first clinical applications of magnetic nanoparticles to reach the market, Endomagnetics has developed a technology that offers a safer, cheaper way to detect whether breast tumours have spread

Science|Business polled some of the main stakeholders of the EU’s next research funding programme about the proposed simplifications. The verdict: Nice try, but let’s work on the details

Start-up entrepreneurs learn how to pitch their companies at a joint EIT and Science|Business master class

Over 600 researchers from all round Europe have contributed to a critical review of Horizon 2020. They say collaboration is needed across disciplines for the €80B research programme to deliver, writes EMRC Chair Liselotte Højgaard

Past winners of Academic Enterprise Awards are making progress in the commercialisation of their research

The winner of the Science|Business Academic Enterprise (ACES) award for entrepreneurs under age 30 – presented at the Royal Academy of Science in Brussels in February – deploys ultra violet reflective powder and a scanner to determine just how clean are a pair of washed hands.

The barriers between technology and industry must be knocked over to unleash European innovation, says Jean J. Botti of EADS

To create spin-offs and boost tech transfer, universities must actively help young researchers to become entrepreneurs

An Imperial College London study, for the Science|Business Innovation Board, looks at how professional investors pick winners – and draws some lessons for government funders

As it celebrates its 5th birthday, the European Research Council is not about to give in to pressure to spread grants more evenly across Europe. Excellence will prevail, says president Helga Nowotny