As the Academic Enterprise Awards enters a fourth year, international business school INSEAD, in collaboration with EM Lyon Business School, plans to begin studying the finalists to see what makes them tick.
Academic entrepreneurs from Switzerland, Finland, the United Kingdom and Israel were recognised in the third annual ACES awards, held in Zurich on 3 February and awarded by the Science|Business Innovation Board.
The Academic Enterprise Awards (ACES) culminate in a gala dinner and conference on academic enterprise. The host: ETH Zurich, one of the world’s leading technology universities.
The challenge is part of GE’s ecomagination initiative, a global commitment to build innovative clean energy technologies and will help fund the most promising start-ups and breakthrough ideas.
Unusually, innovation is on the agenda at the meeting Feb. 4 of European leaders in Brussels. On the eve of this summit, a group of innovation leaders calls for a sweeping overhaul of the system.
Former Academic Enterprise Award (ACES) winner Novacem, a spin-out specialised in carbon negative cement, has secured a follow-on investment from the London Technology Fund.
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