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January 28, 2020

Corporate innovation news roundup: reinventing the wheel, regrowing your liver, why innovation labs fail

This is what Europe's biggest corporations got up to in corporate innovation this week, featuring Sanofi, Siemens, BMW, AB InBev and more.


Maija Palmer

7 min read

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