Reports

The European Commission is planning new policies to ‘modernise’ universities. The Science|Business Innovation Board calls on the EU to push for universities that are more flexible, responsive and autonomous actors in the knowledge marketplace

On 3 December 2011, the ACES Selection Committee met at ESADE’s Creapolis technology and innovation park in Barcelona to sort through the 120 nominations received.

Science|Business and Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet have conducted a survey of a wide range of stakeholders in personalised healthcare across four major EU-markets (Belgium, France, the Netherlands and the UK).

An overview of the Policy Bridge roundtables that took place between 2007 and 2009. Leaders in European policy, industry and academia met to discuss new ideas in innovation policy.

When the history of the Great Recession is written, there will be at least a chapter about an innovation in public policy that developed during this period: innovation policy, itself.

In May 2009, a Brussels seminar examined the potential of computers to save energy – and the obstacles to realising that potential.

Clusters are the motive force of the Knowledge Economy. The question is: How to make them happen?

How fundamental developments in computer science – among them, computational thinking – are changing the way we perform research, educate our children and set policy.

The Western Balkans has long been one of Europe’s most unstable regions. But, with the prospect of technological and economic development, is that about to change?

Entrepreneurs are important to creating jobs and prosperity in Europe; most politicians recognise that nowadays. But what’s less obvious is that when it comes to creating new businesses, sheer numbers don’t make for a dynamic economy.