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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.

Two major pharmaceutical companies are teaming up with the Cancer Research UK charity in a tumour genetics project

A new aquaculture R&D programme developed by the Norwegian Research Council is to focus on sustainability

Four leading research groups are combining forces to find genetic links to Alzheimer’s disease.

A total of 15 collaborative social sciences research projects will receive funding through the Open Research Area Scheme

An EU funded project aims to upgrade, improve and integrate major research infrastructures in Europe

Unusually, innovation is on the agenda at the meeting Feb. 4 of European leaders in Brussels. On the eve of this summit, a group of innovation leaders calls for a sweeping overhaul of the system.

After the turbulence of credit crunch and recession, US venture capitalists regained some confidence in 2010. More money is becoming available for seed investments and start-ups, and the words Initial, Public and Offering are creeping back into the lexicon