News | Biotech | 1 Apr Call for small UK labs to embrace Dunkirk spirit and produce Covid-19 tests Veteran UK entrepreneur Mike Fischer calls on small labs to help provide a collective 100,000+ tests a week for front-line healthcare staff.
News | Corporate Innovation | 31 Mar Corporate innovation weekly — bacterial protein, pneumonia vaccines and London’s electric avenue This is what Europe's biggest corporations are have been doing in innovation in the last week, featuring UBS, Roche, Danone, Siemens and more.
Analysis | Corporate Innovation | 31 Mar AI to plug the $40bn patent black hole Companies spend a fortune just maintaining their patents every year but most don’t know if it's worth it
News | Data | 30 Mar Fighting Covid-19 without turning into a surveillance state NHSX launches a hackathon to find tech to beat Covid-19 that doesn’t compromise privacy
News | Corporate Innovation | 24 Mar Coronavirus: Turning windscreen wiper motors into emergency ventilators The devices can be made in four hours using basic materials
News | Flying Cars | 24 Mar Engine fires and coronavirus: How Lilium managed to raise $240m in tough times Last month its prototype aircraft caught fire. Now coronavirus will halt all test flights. But Lilium has still managed to raise a new round.
Analysis | Healthtech | 20 Mar Small companies step up to big role in Covid-19 testing Increased testing is a crucial part of controlling Covid-19. Some smaller biotech companies may have solutions to offer.
News | Corporate Innovation | 17 Mar Corporate innovation weekly: soy sauce taps, electric cars and robots to file your expenses This is what Europe's biggest companies got up to this week with startups and new ideas, featuring Unilever, Nestlé, Maersk, VW, RBS and more.
News | Corporate Innovation | 13 Mar How artificial intelligence is changing the game for banks Eigen Technologies, which uses small datasets to train its AI, has bagged deals with ING and Goldman Sachs.
News | Startup Life | 11 Mar UK government slashes tax relief for entrepreneurs The tax break was criticised as benefiting just a few rich people. But others argue it was a good incentive for founders and helped stop brain drain.
News | Corporate Innovation | 10 Mar Corporate innovation weekly: self-driving wheelchairs, BBVA “ninjas” This is what Europe's largest corporations did this week with startups and new ideas. Featuring ABB, Airbus, Munich Re, British Airways, Alstom and more
How To | Corporate Innovation | 10 Mar Innovation ideas to steal from Dominos, Penguin, JCDecaux and Vogue Four case studies of digital innovation projects that worked so well they have become reference points in the industry.
Interview | Corporate Innovation | 10 Mar “You need a certain naivety to uncover customers’ true needs” Nathalie Gaveau, a French serial entrepreneur (who cofounded PriceMinister and Shopcade) now builds startups for big corporations. BCG's Digital Ventures has a particular method for doing this.
News | Venture Capital | 4 Mar Draper declares “golden age” for Eastern European tech Silicon Valley billionaire partners with Poland’s OTB to find gems among 10,000 maturing startups
News | Corporate Innovation | 3 Mar Corporate innovation weekly: robot brains, robot eyes, shapeshifting cars This is what Europe's largest companies were doing to innovate this week, featuring Bosch, ABB, Santander Commerzgroup, Renault and more
Analysis | Corporate Innovation | 3 Mar The Harry Potter spy startup BP wants to turn into a unicorn And the technology is a lot weirder than we expected — a system for turning cables below a city into a giant monitoring device.
