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Healthtech, Dr. Bertalan Mesko, director of the Medical Futurist Institute

Analysis | Healthtech | 10 Jul

Top 25 healthtech influencers to follow on Twitter

From digital health whizzes to femtech gurus, meet the healthtech Twitter influencers you should follow.

Opinion | Investment | 26 Jun

Women’s money: can we close the investment gap?

The global financial industry loses $700bn annually by not attracting a female audience.

Analysis | Policy | 25 Jun

This new European law could make-or-break startups

Startups will be directly affected by the Digital Services Act. They need to start talking to the Commission to help shape the policy.

Interview | Fintech | 24 Jun

Opening up finance: Q&A with Eric Sager, chief operating officer at Plaid

Q&A with Eric Sager, chief operating officer at Plaid, on how fintech innovation is democratising finance.

News | Corporate Innovation | 23 Jun

Corporate innovation weekly: the rise of hydrogen

This is what Europe's biggest companies have been investing in: solid-state batteries, hydrogen fuel, no code robots and quantum computing.

News | Corporate Innovation | 23 Jun

New incubator to turn jobless energy workers into entrepreneurs

A wave of redundancies in the oil and gas sector could turn into a wave of new startups.

Opinion | Corporate Innovation | 23 Jun

Intrapreneurship? It’s a trap!

The truth is most intrapreneurship efforts are dead before they begin. And not everyone is cut out to be an intrapreneur.

Places | Government | 23 Jun

Luxembourg’s government joins forces with its startups

Luxembourg is a launchpad for startups to expand internationally.

Analysis | Deeptech | 17 Jun

Building a utopian Martian village in the Californian desert

Interstellar Lab is building a prototype Mars settlement in California to research living on the red planet. Tourists could go for $6,000 a week.

News | Corporate Innovation | 16 Jun

Corporate innovation weekly: single cell analysis, luxury travel

These are the new ideas and startups that Europe's biggest companies are investing in as they rebuild after Covid-19.

Opinion | Corporate Innovation | 16 Jun

Corporates — back employee spinouts rather than just cutting jobs

10 years ago, Nokia’s Bridge programme for employees it had made redundant created 300 new startups.

Analysis | Startup Life | 16 Jun

Europe’s top tech for good startups to watch

Here are European startups worth knowing that have built their business with social and environmental impact in mind. But will the tech for good opportunity survive coronavirus?

Black and white image of a nanofibre membrane

News | Deeptech | 16 Jun

The nanofibre ‘teabag’ that could replace diabetics’ insulin injections

Oxford-based Electrospinning is developing a nanofibre device that would allow new insulin cells to be implanted into patients.

Analysis | Corporate Innovation | 15 Jun

PagoFX — Can a bank really build its own fintech?

Banks have had patchy success with building their own fintech brands, but Santander is pushing ahead aggressively with its money transfer app PagoFX. This is how it aims to succeed where peers have failed.

News | Corporate Innovation | 9 Jun

Corporate innovation weekly: hyperloop and microfiltered water

This is what Europe's largest companies are investing in: factory software, trade finance, hyperloop, alternatives to bottled water.

Interview | Coronavirus | 9 Jun

Startups can re-invent the post-pandemic world, says Armenian president

President Armen Sarkissian talks tech startups, reinventing the world and his idea for a club of small nations.