Belgium Science News

Cartagenia announced today that it has signed an agreement with the International Standards for Cytogenomic Arrays (ISCA) Consortium to set up an automated data acquisition pipeline based on Cartagenia’s BENCH data management solution.

As the European Parliament prepares for hearings on the newly named Commission, 5 groups of policy experts will issue a joint statement at the European Parliament on 7 December, urging a new approach to research and innovation policy in Europe.

Groups from TU Delft and Imperial College London lead a list of 18 entrepreneurs and spin-out companies chosen to go through to the finals in Paris on 10 December of the only pan-European awards for university researchers who start businesses.

An innovative concept that tackles deforestation in the tropics, climate change, energy poverty and food insecurity is awarded 300000 euros by the Congo Basin Forest Fund.

The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, a world-renowned Belgian university for research and development, has agreed to join the Science|Business Network of prominent European research institutions, in an effort to promote enterprise in science.

AITEX, one of the leading textile research institutes in Europe, is organizing an Information Day on 31 March 2009 in Brussels to strengthen its international projection and build on new partnerships.

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway’s leading university for higher education in technology, has agreed to join the Science|Business Network of prominent European research institutions.

Academic entrepreneurs from Northern Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, England, Scotland, and Sweden were named last night as the winners of the inaugural ACES, the Academic Enterprise Awards 2008, at a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden.

The world’s first wireless sensor for sleeping and breathing and silicone contact lenses for glaucoma patients are finalists for first European awards for university entrepreneurs.

Culture conflicts get in the way of good collaboration between European universities and companies, according to preliminary results of a new survey released at the Euroscience Open Forum today.

The first pan-European awards programme to recognise academic entrepreneurs was launched yesterday at INSEAD’s Europe campus, Fontainebleau, by the Science|Business Innovation Board, a panel of leaders in industry, academia and policy.