The 2008 merger of three of Finland’s top universities was the spur for Kristo Ovaska to opt out of a career in banking and set out to promote entrepreneurialism on the campus. Ovaska was presented with the Science|Business Academic Enterprise Bridge Award in February.
A new study of the distribution of innovative companies in the UK has huge implications for how innovation policies across Europe are focussed to maximise economic growth and job creation
The Drug Discovery Unit at Dundee is to spearhead the development of a national network to allow researchers to work together in fragment-based drug design
ICT has the technology and applications on hand to improve the efficiency of Europe’s healthcare systems. An EU task force charged with speeding these capabilities through to the bedside gets down to work this week
The US Solicitor General says the US Patent and Trademark Office is wrong to have granted patents on isolated DNA, as the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit hears oral arguments in the Myriad gene patenting case
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