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Entrepreneurs, investors and industry leaders attending the third annual Science|Business Academic Enterprise Awards (ACES) conference earlier this month called on European politicians and universities to do more to support entrepreneurship on campus and help seed a new generation of world-class technology companies.

University technology transfer and commercialisation is a delicate balancing act, calling for scale and a global outlook on one hand, and intimate knowledge and continuous contact on the other, says Keith Robson, Chair of SETsquared.

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.

Being first on the moon looks trifling next to all the things science is expected to do for us now

Europe’s biggest-ever private financing round by a biotech doesn’t mean the capital drought is over, says Martin Edwards of Novo Ventures.

Index Ventures raised $400 million dollars in its last fund, of which about half will be invested in life science start-ups. Senior partner, Francesco de Rubertis says personalised medicine will take a large share of this.

Human capital, infrastructure and good governance may provide support for innovation and economic growth, but they don’t guarantee it

Science|Business launches its revamped online portal for European research and innovation.

Marion Dewar, responsible for innovation policy in the cabinet of Research Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, sets out the vision for the Innovation Union.