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Academic entrepreneurs from across Europe were named last night as the winners of the inaugural Academic Enterprise Awards 2008, at a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden.

Select companies can still find funding from venture capitalists and the public market; others are using the depressed economy to cut costs.

US genomics firm Myriad Genetics regains limited rights to BRCA1 breast cancer gene on final appeal.

The first seminar on how to select and format the EIT’s Knowledge and Innovation Communities was held in Bratislava this week.

The Karolinska Institute’s technology commercialisation reported a strong initial take-up of a new share issue to raise money to develop portfolio companies.

Dublin emerged as victor in the competition to be European City of Science and will host the Euroscience Open Forum in 2012.

IBM is to set up a computing research “collaboratory” in Dublin, creating 40 jobs at IBM and local universities, supported by the Irish government through IDA Ireland.

Governments need to increase international cooperation and strengthen links between public research bodies and industry, says a new OECD report.

It’s tough to spin out a company from a university in Europe. Read about those who have done it – and may be named the winners of the first pan-European awards for university spin-outs in Stockholm on 2 December.

The finalists for the ACES Academic Enterprise Award were selected at a meeting on 5 November at University College London. Here are the participants.

Healthcare is unreceptive to technology because it still operates under a 19th-century business model. It’s time for its organisation and systems to change.