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The first European repository of nanomaterials has been launched to support safety assessments and promote consumer confidence in nanotech based products

University technology transfer and commercialisation is a delicate balancing act, calling for scale and a global outlook on one hand, and intimate knowledge and continuous contact on the other, says Keith Robson, Chair of SETsquared.

The European aerospace group EADS announced it is to collaborate with scientists at Glasgow University, to work on making the use of solid hydrogen for fuelling planes a commercial proposition.

The European Commission proposes a joined-up approach to research and innovation, in a move that could have profound implications for European research funding

Knowledge transfer association ProTon Europe has elected Pat Frain, the former director of University College Dublin's technology transfer division, as its new Chair.

Having additional women as part of management gives companies a number of advantages in the field of innovation, according to a study from BI Norwegian School of Management.

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 European Institute of Innovation and Technology – the EIT, set up by the European Union to encourage innovation – is to launch an awards programme for young entrepreneurs next year, in partnership with Science|Business. The move is part of a push to change attitudes to entrepreneurship in Europe, and was announced today (3 February) by EIT Board member Daria Tataj at the ACES Academic Enterprise conference, held at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

There’s still little progress to report in Europe’s innovation performance, as the gap with Japan and the US widens further, and upcoming competitors China and Brazil are catching up, according to the EU’s latest reckoning in the 2010 Innovation Union Scoreboard.