Bigger, and simpler – those are among the promised virtues of the proposed Horizon 2020 programme. But are the changes sufficient to tempt industry back into the fold? And will universities like what they get? A Science|Business meeting in Brussels heard from some of the key architects of the plan
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
What’s next? How could emerging ICT technologies disrupt the best-laid plans of policy makers? A dinner debate about how ICT will change the way universities, companies and governments think.
ACES winner Mendeley is revolutionising the way research is done – using cloud computing to create the largest crowd-sourced library in the world. Its software lets academics organise and annotate journal articles, and share and discuss their work with researchers around the globe
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