Anne Glover, Chief Scientific Advisor to European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, argues there’s nothing that beats a career in science and technology: Great pay and lifelong employment opportunities, while transforming the world and meeting the most interesting people.

Back to the future: Apprenticeships that work

Open innovation networks can help SMEs become highly profitable, but they only work as long as the value jointly created is significantly larger than that produced by the partners on their own.