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Finland’s model for an innovation university

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

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

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
EU Research Commissioner Geoghegan-Quinn, warns against cuts in national R&D budgets in the downturn

EU Research Commissioner Geoghegan-Quinn, warns against cuts in national R&D budgets in the downturn

European governments that cut spending on research and innovation to help rein in budget deficits risk sacrificing the EU’s future prosperity,... More
Centres for innovation

Centres for innovation

Microsoft Innovation Centres around Europe aim to help harness great ideas and turn them into successful businesses while creating jobs, helping... More
Barcelona, eScience and cloud computing

Barcelona, eScience and cloud computing

The Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC) is taking part in a pioneering EU Framework Programme 7 project on cloud computing , Venus-C - a... More
Microsoft's Barcelona Research Center

Microsoft's Barcelona Research Center

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and Microsoft joined forces in 2008 to create the BSC-Microsoft Research Centre. More
European Union project to help scientific progress

European Union project to help scientific progress

Sahara dust forecasting, cancer genome sequencing or the design of computer’s next generation of microprocessors are among the scientific... More
Máire Geoghegan-Quinn - new EU Commissioner for Science & Research

Máire Geoghegan-Quinn - new EU Commissioner for Science & Research

It’s been all change in Brussels, and innovation now has a new Commissioner. And Máire Geoghegan-Quinn has made it crystal clear that she... More
Barcelona and the future for the cloud

Barcelona and the future for the cloud

A converted chapel in Barcelona is the home for a supercomputing centre that is helping to revolutionise the way we will use cloud computing. More

Meet the new biology

Biologists have long had to fight against the idea that theirs is a ‘soft’ science. Now, armed with tools from computer science, they are... More
Honour for Cambridge lab head

Honour for Cambridge lab head

Andrew Herbert has always been fascinated by computing, completing his first degree in computational science in 1975 and since then gaining a PhD from... More
The Trento algorithm: A research recipe from Italy

The Trento algorithm: A research recipe from Italy

Take an ancient town, a new university, Microsoft Research and a fresh approach to computational systems biology. Mix well. Then apply… More
Smart software improves environmental forecasting

Smart software improves environmental forecasting

Environmental scientists face many challenges in monitoring and understanding our planet’s changing climate. More
EMBL’s Peer Bork recognised for work in bioinformatics

EMBL’s Peer Bork recognised for work in bioinformatics

Peer Bork, who heads a team of bioinformatic researchers at the Heidelberg, Germany- based European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), has been... More
Albert II visits the Microsoft innovation centre in Mons

Albert II visits the Microsoft innovation centre in Mons

On 16 June 2009, the King of Belgium, Albert II, visited one of Belgium’s innovation hotspots, the Digital Innovation Valley in Mons. During the... More
HiBi workshop seeks answers to model questions

HiBi workshop seeks answers to model questions

Fifty-five researchers met in Trento, Italy, in October to look for collaborative solutions to the limitations that are emerging in the way that... More
Open for innovation

Open for innovation

John Wood, Chair of the European Research Area Board, gives a personal assessment of how research needs to change and adapt to face the future. More
Putting computer science to work on biodiversity

Putting computer science to work on biodiversity

As concerns about global warming grow, scientists are turning to sophisticated computational models to better understand and ultimately predict the... More
Going to extremes: The Research Information Centre

Going to extremes: The Research Information Centre

A joint venture between Microsoft Research and the British Library is looking to address the needs of researchers as ‘extreme information... More
Searching questions

Searching questions

Search is increasingly becoming the main way in which people interact with information online, no matter what form it takes or where it is stored... More
Barcelona supercomputing center and Microsoft create joint research centre for parallel computing

Barcelona supercomputing center and Microsoft create joint research centre for parallel computing

On 18 January 2008, Microsoft and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) announced the creation of the BSC – Microsoft Research Centre, which... More
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