What’s stopping start-ups in the EU?
Are we making European start-ups abscond to the US?
A wealth of innovation opportunities among the poorest on the planet
And you thought shopping was exhausting: necessity forces these ‘dollar or two a day’ people into an unimaginably intricate daily web of cash and credit
Sustainability and innovation: an oil company’s view
They tell us how they see the future in this video
Is healthcare data just a game?
US government initiative spawns ‘Community Clash’
Dancing lessons from an elephant?
A giant corporation gives us a crash course on their novel approach to innovation [Video]
TSB £4.5m competition deadline June 30
The UK’s Technology Strategy Board is running a £4.5m competition for research into ‘smart’ energy use in homes. The deadline is June 30, 2010. The TSB is primarily interested in…
OLPC plans $75 kids’ tablet PC
One Laptop Per Child plans to have an open source $75 tablet PC with a semi-flexible plastic touch screen available in 2012.
Did the recent “We’ve Just Created Life” coverage leave you feeling a bit ‘engineered’?
Sounds like you need to watch a Video of the Synthetic Biology Debate at the Edinburgh Science Festival
Why not update yourself on seven major robotics projects at once?
Here’s a video with a commentary by the man at the centre of the research
The eCar guys that don’t build cars
Who are those guys? If they don’t build cars, what do they do? This short video tells you exactly what the eCar guys do.
Balanced assessment of China’s Green Transport efforts?
It starts off pretty positive, even supportive, but it doesn’t back away from asking some hardball questions [Video]
Easy being green? Not if you make mobile handsets
It’s all the consumer’s fault (green mobile phone consciousness is only just warming up)
Working with the Y (Why?) Generation
A battle to reinvent the way you see your workforce [Video]
So how does a leading VC defend optimism in a crisis?
Innovators may need all the help they can get fighting off the bears and DFJ boss Steve Jurvetson delivers some interesting ammunition [Video]
Round-up: nanotech provides battery power
Image via Wikipedia We could go on and on like the Duracell bunny about advances in battery and super-capacitor technology but we’ve decided to go with the flow (of ions)…
Round-up: big bucks for Sybase
SAP sees advantages of mobile access and new options in the world of social networking.
Funding for new innovation centres
Herman Hauser persuades the government to create innovation centres
Who’s who: London Business Angels
Outline of the London Business Angels
US dominates BBC list of net entrepreneurs who made it
Who’s rich and which companies dominate the internet.
UK Innovation fund launches to help start-ups
The British government has begun the process of distributing £325 million to small and medium-sized businesses.
Nanotech funding holds steady
European nanotech firms turned over €44 billion in 2009, according to industry body IVAM. Orders and sales volumes were down but funding held steady.
Bluffer’s guide to nanotechnology
A charmingly British academic video explaining the nuts and bolts, so to speak, of nanotechnology.
Who’s who: London Technology Fund
Outline of the London Technology Fund.
Businesslike approach puts UK start-ups ahead
The UK provides the best environment for innovation investment according to BASF Venture Capital investment manager Dr Oliver Guthmann.