Innovation

News | Government | 5 Apr

UK tech leaders call on government to act now to save startups

Save our Startups campaign warns that many of the 30,000 startups in the UK could collapse.

News | Cities | 1 Apr

Air pollution drops in European cities: how does your street look?

Europeans are stuck at home because of coronavirus and pollution is dropping. Check out these before and after air-quality maps.

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.

Interview | Corporate Innovation | 31 Mar

“You cannot assume that old knowledge is still valid”

Alex Mahr, cofounder of Stryber, helps companies build startup portfolios. Many companies, he says, start the process late and don't know how to measure results.

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

Analysis | Workspaces | 31 Mar

Are coworking spaces doomed?

In the time of social distancing, what’s happening to the spaces that exist to bring people together?

Interview | Deeptech | 17 Mar

Scouting deeptech startups with iPod inventor Tony Fadell

The inventor of the iPod and founder of smart home startup Nest now runs deeptech investor Future Shape out of Paris.

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 | Robotics | 9 Mar

The robotics startup helping to fight coronavirus

Blue Ocean Robotics finds success amid “the worst years of robotics history”.

Interview | Corporate Innovation | 3 Mar

“Disruption is not about being radical”

It is about the size of the problem you are solving, says Costas Papaikonomou, the "grumpy innovator" and cofounder of Happen.

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.

Analysis | Healthtech | 2 Mar

From robots to AI drugs, here are six tech startups fighting coronavirus

Six founders talk about their cornavirus-fighting tech.

Analysis | Accelerators | 26 Feb

From Benidorm to Belarus — how to build companies on two sides of a continent

Company builder Demium talks teamwork, openness and siestas 

News | Corporate Innovation | 25 Feb

Corporate innovation weekly: blockchain for Barça fans, Volkwagen’s secret battery tech

Tech and investment news from Europe's biggest companies. This week featuring BBVA, Maersk, Axa, Audi, Deloitte, Unilever and more.

Analysis | Environment | 25 Feb

Can tech for good be as profitable as plain old tech?

European startups and investors are out to prove that profit and purpose can go hand-in-hand.

News | Fintech | 21 Feb

BBVA backs UK fintech targeting the gig-economy as sector heats up

Income-smoother Wollit has secured seed funding from Spain's second-largest bank and two major venture capital funds.