The Academic Enterprise Awards (ACES) culminate in a gala dinner and conference on academic enterprise. The host: ETH Zurich, one of the world’s leading technology universities.
The challenge is part of GE’s ecomagination initiative, a global commitment to build innovative clean energy technologies and will help fund the most promising start-ups and breakthrough ideas.
On 3 December 2011, the ACES Selection Committee met at ESADE’s Creapolis technology and innovation park in Barcelona to sort through the 120 nominations received.
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
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