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Can cash create clusters?

Financial incentives have attracted the Max Planck Society and an MIT lab to Florida. But can clusters be built on money alone?

The magnificent machine

As the most expensive experiment in history gets off the ground, the Large Hadron Collider should provide inspiration for European research as a whole.

The Entrepreneur and the Taxpayer

A new report from Nesta shows that private money now accounts for only 43 per cent of early stage investments in the UK, leaving public funds to prop up innovation.

Across borders: Medicon Valley

Spanning a national boundary, Medicon Valley’s issues with joint funding and differing tax regimes are a microcosm of the larger European problem. Part 4 of our series on clusters.

Innovation: throwing away the old books

Across the world innovation policy remains largely dominated by an “assembly line” Fordist-style thinking – but 21st-century innovation is based on fuzzy logic, says NESTA’s Sami Mahroum.