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Is entrepreneurship innate, or can the requisite skills be taught? Speakers at the Science|Business ACES awards had differing views, writes Michael Kenward.

Philippe Swennen of the Association Internationale de la Mutualité tells Fabrice Delaye how insurers feel about the advent of personalised healthcare.

VCs considering an investment in a technology venture should focus more on markets if they want to mitigate risk and deliver fast returns, says Jon Treanor of Conduit Partners.

As planning for a new EU research effort begins, many are calling for changes in the way the system works, writes Richard L. Hudson.

The new Health and Consumer Care Commissioner John Dalli is right to put patients first, but that means tending to pharma too, writes Nuala Moran.

The world’s computers may be throwing out heat when active, consuming electricity on stand-by, and polluting the environment when dumped, but now the industry is on a mission.

As hearings begin in Brussels on a new European Commission, we offer four simple questions for the nominees involved in research and innovation.

Research money should promote excellence not cohesion, says Peter Frankenberg, Minister of Science, Research and the Arts for the German state of Baden-Württemberg.

It’s time for innovation to break free of the confines of the laboratory, says Diogo Vasconcelos of the Business Panel on Future EU Innovation Policy.

The reshuffling of EU portfolios brings ‘innovation’ to the policy fore – but we are waiting for details (if they exist) of how it will all work, write Richard L. Hudson and Nuala Moran.