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Finding and measuring 21st-century skills

Companies want employees who can think critically, work collaboratively and communicate through new technology. A revolutionary project is teaching... 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

European Institute of Innovation & Technology, a decent job, but…

Looking back at his three-year term as chairman of the European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT), Martin Schuurmans has mixed feelings. 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

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

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

The cluster recipe: how to emulate Europe's most famous innovation hotspot

Billy Boyle is the kind of entrepreneur European policy makers would love to clone. Working out of a basement lab at Cambridge University, Boyle and... More

Robotics gets personal

Huge industrial robots are now a mature industry. Young French entrepreneur Jean-Christophe Baillie believes it is time for them to move from... 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

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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