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By World Economic Forum August 2015 Europe’s economies, firms and citizens urgently need the economic growth that flows from increased regional competitiveness. The European Commission’s recent Spring Economic Forecast struck a positive and very welcome note by highlighting a number of economic “tailwinds” that are expected to support lending, consumption and investment across Europe. In […]

Article & picture from The Economist – Edition Jan 23, 2016 The fashion of making employees collaborate has gone too far IN MODERN business, collaboration is next to godliness. Firms shove their staff into open-plan offices to encourage serendipitous encounters. Managers oblige their underlings to add new collaborative tools such as Slack and Chatter to

When artists get involved in research, science benefits When artists and scientists get together, creative sparks can fly. Collaborative sci-art projects are increasingly popular and one obvious benefit is the greater visibility of the research through the artist’s work. Our project explored scientific and artistic aspects of Antarctic ice crystals. But what’s in it for the scientists?

Academics base conclusions on a decade of MIT publications and patents It has long been thought that physical proximity drives collaboration between researchers on university campuses. Now a new study conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has confirmed that this still holds true, even in the age of easy online communication. The study, which