Tekes and Finpro will merge to form Business Finland, putting all services under one roof, fostering collaboration and supporting cross sector innovation and scale up
Universities are worried that the call from former WTO chief Pascal Lamy for them to nurture more start-up founders and digitise faster puts their broader contributions to society, culture and the economy at risk of being sidelined
No one underestimates the difficulty of shoehorning science into policy. Partiality is inevitable, but policy makers need to be transparent in showing what underlies their decisions - and what evidence they choose to ignore
Schottky diodes fabricated at the Nanofabrication Laboratory at the Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience – MC2 – are becoming important components of the second generation weather satellite space project MetOp, scheduled for launch in 2019
Don’t mention the B word: the first major reform of R&D funding since 1965 aims to make the UK the “go-to place” for science. But in setting out the vision, no reference was made to Brexit and its implications
By measuring and comparing patient outcomes, a hospital group in the Netherlands has cut down on unnecessary x-rays, reduced surgical complications and delivered better results for cancer patients. Payers have taken note
Over the past 30 years, cancer control measures have led to rising life expectancy in rich populations, but these gains have yet to be seen in poorer populations, according to a study in the British Medical Journal
The evidence that cognitive training, blood pressure management and increased physical activity might slow cognitive decline and the onset of dementia is encouraging but insufficient to justify a public health campaign focused on their adoption, according to a new report from the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
A European network has been created to bring the power of numbers to uncovering the causes of sudden cardiac arrest and compare outcomes of different treatments
Whole genome sequencing involving the analysis of all three billion pairs of letters in an individual’s DNA has been hailed as a technology that will usher in a new era of predicting and preventing disease
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