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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.

There could be no more graphic and endearing image of the potential that stem cell research has to replace damaged or diseased tissue - and treat the previously untreatable - than the picture of the smiling, happy and restored Claudia Castillo, after a windpipe transplant.

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.