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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

Getting the mice out of the operating theatres

If doctors could use natural user interfaces, like gestures, surgery could be quicker and safer. 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

Finland’s model for an innovation university

Finland has set out to create a university that has innovation built into its foundations, merging three institutions into one along the way. Is... More

Information technology skills boost innovation

Are our schools and universities teaching the right skills to enable a new generation of IT practitioners to drive forward innovation? The... More

Back to the boot camp: Fitness training for new enterprises

Belgian IT engineer Didier Beka had a new idea: software that would enable people with hearing or speaking disabilities to communicate by telephone.... 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

Hungry? Reach for the cloud…

Superbowl Sunday is big business in the US as people all over the nation tune in to watch the American football match of the year. Pizza deliveries... 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

Low carbon: Public-private partnerships take up the challenge

Big challenges can encourage big solutions, and at the end of last year there was no challenge bigger than Europe’s response to the economic... More

Commission to propose Innovation Act

Is a European Innovation Act what’s needed to make Europe more innovative and strengthen growth and competitiveness in the EU? Policymakers,... More

Time to get going again

When the new Commission is appointed, it will find a raft of proposals waiting for it – all aimed at putting research, development and... 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

ICT - the way out of the economic crisis

Viviane Reding, European commissioner for all things hi-tech, is known for telling it like it is. A passionate advocate for new technologies, she has... More

How to solve the cluster equation?

In 1997, Microsoft opened its first big European lab – and it placed it in what was then Europe's only serious answer to Silicon Valley:... More

Flying high: a technology volunteer’s story

Ali Tarabit has been a volunteer with the charity organization Aviation Sans Frontières (ASF) for almost three years. With his help, ASF has... More

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