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Small companies win big in innovation partnerships-creativity is in the network

With cheap Asian imports eroding its market share in the late 1990s, Belgian bicycle parts maker Curana needed a new business model – and fast.... More

Fighting cyber threats you can’t see coming

Berlin’s Trifense, an EIT Entrepreneurship Award winner, takes a new approach to Internet security – and starts to gain traction in the... More

What economic downturn? European tech start-ups flourish in the storm

Victor Henning, co-founder of Mendeley, an online service that helps academic researchers organise and share the mounds of documents they collect,... More

Creating an entrepreneurial environment

Social stability, economic prosperity, and cultural richness all depend on educational excellence. Over the past thousand years, European universities... More

Doctors on a call

A start-up created by two British medics combines social networks and cloud computing to make hospital staffing more efficient. More

Swiss innovation on a roll

In just 15 years, Switzerland’s government and universities have worked to make the country a leader in entrepreneurship. It may be known for... More

The new world of 3D chat

Online messaging hasn’t changed much since it was introduced more than a decade ago. But German start-up Cooee, based in Kaiserlautern, is... More

Success story: At Kobojo virtual goods mean real money

Founded three years ago, Kobojo develops games for social media such as Facebook. Now it is developing a business model that transforms virtual... More

Into the cloud, a new way of doing business

It’s nearly impossible for companies to stay on top of the explosion of useful information about markets, competitors and customers that crops... More

Going global in 60 minutes

For Irish entrepreneur John Dennehy, the arrival of cloud computing offered a powerful argument to launch a new company. Dennehy was convinced... More

An Innovation Union for SMEs

Small and medium-sized enterprises – SMEs – will be the powerhouse of the Innovation Union that the EU must become if we are to enjoy... More

Growing European SMEs

Andreas Klinger’s 18-month struggle to find money for a new company helps explain why Europe doesn’t produce more start-ups. Klinger... More

Show me the money: tapping into Europe’s funding streams

Government grants are often so complex and costly to obtain that small companies never bother. More

Going for Go

Go is a game so complex that raw computing power was never going to be enough to turn it into a competitive computer game. But two Cambridge... More

Inside the cloud

The cloud is one of the most popular terms in IT today but perhaps also one of the least well defined. FUTURES guides you through the how and the why. More

That special spark: A helping hand for innovative start-ups

Who would start a business development for start-ups in a slump? That’s precisely when it has to be done, says Microsoft. More

Constructive disruption

Microsoft’s Akhtar Badshah wants to be a disruptive influence More

European Research Council set for growth, says president

The European Research Council head urges basic research for economic growth – and charts a course for expansion More

A helping hand allows Hungarian firm to fund logistics project

Since Hungary's accession into the European Union, the number of logistics operators in the country has been growing fast. This is particularly true... More

Eyes on the prize

Europe will see its first continent-wide prizes for academic spin-off entrepreneurs awarded in Stockholm on 5 December. More

Hungarian start-up secures 100 per cent funding for photosmart project

Budapest-based start-up eSpirit sought help from European Union Grants Advisor (EUGA) and applied for government funding to develop a new Web-based... More

Europe’s digital future: the challenges ahead

The Lisbon Strategy's aim is to make the EU ‘the most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy in the world capable of sustainable... More

Austrian start-up secures funding for video telephony project

Vienna-based start-up IQ Mobile found that obtaining funding to develop innovative solutions was a straightforward exercise. It was awarded 15 per... More

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