It should come as no surprise that sentiment is important in the investment world. Just ask any entrepreneur trying to raise money for their daily deals company or a hyperlocal news startup.
But perhaps no industry has been maligned as much as clean tech. The nadir seems to have come recently when 60 Minutes dove into the industry in their “The Cleantech Crash” feature. Vinod Khosla who featured prominently in the segment actually lashed back with a lengthy defense after his appearance.
European industry has maintained its global market position thanks to relatively low energy intensity levels and high renewables penetration, according to a study into the continent’s competitiveness due to be released by the European Commission as part of its clean energy package today (22 January).
Renewable energies “help reduce fuel import costs and contribute to improving the energy trade balance,” says the report by the EU’s economic and financial affairs directorate (DG Ecfin), which EurActiv has seen.
General Electric just announced it has acquired API Healthcare, a company that sells software to hospitals to improve productivity.
The strategic buy-up is in line with GE’s overall strategy to bolster efficiency in hospitals. In June of 2013, the industrial giant announced it would set aside $2 billion for its burgeoning health care practice.
Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
As technology to penetrate into the tired old world of healthcare, the average patient stands to benefit in a big way, but doctors are struggling to keep up with a changing world. With origins dating back to 2004, Kareo has been on a mission to help doctors manage the increasingly complex business of medicine. Through its cloud-based practice management software, Kareo has worked to enable small practices to simplify day-to-day operations by taking the paperwork and administrative hassles out of the hands of their doctors to free them up to do what they do best: Work with patients.
EKI digitalaren inplementazioa bertatik bertara ezagutzeko aukera izan zuten bisitan zehar. Digitalean sortutako materiala lau ikastolatan ezarri dute modu esperimentalean eta Arizmendi Ikastolan, DBHko 1. mailako 172 ikaslek sei ikasgai lantzen dituzte modu honetan.
Since 2008, eight patients have been given a new chance at life when surgeons replaced their badly damaged tracheas with man-made versions. This highly experimental technology is now moving from research labs to a manufacturing facility as a Boston-area company prepares to produce the scaffolds for growing the synthetic organs on a large scale.
Harvard Apparatus Regenerative Technology, or HART, is testing its synthetic trachea system in Russia and has plans for similar tests in the European Union this year. The company is working with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to set up a trial in the United States as well.
Arizmendi Ikastolako Lanbide Heziketak martxan jarriko du ikastaro berria otsailaren 24an. Soilik 15 plaza daude ikastarorako eta izen emate epea otsailaren 17an bukatuko da. Ikastaro honek Eraikinen eraginkortasun energetikoa Gaitasun Agiria lortzeko balio du.
Spanish Wi-Fi sharing company Fon has raised $14 million from Qualcomm Ventures.
It’s an indication that Fon’s collective approach to sharing bandwidth, while slow-growing, still has some attraction to investors — particularly a strategic investor like Qualcomm, which makes chips for broadband wireless communications. It might also be finding some traction now that the notion of “collaborative consumption” is catching on, thanks to startups like AirBnB and Lyft — although Fon predates those startups by several years.
The European Commission will today (20 January) announce an ocean energy action plan to set an energy forum and strategic roadmap in place by 2016, and ready a European Industrial Initiative for implementation by 2020.
The communication, which EurActiv has seen, promises that the new Ocean Energy Forum will “devise workable solutions” to problems facing the industry, ranging from hostile investment climates to maintenance work in harsh weather conditions.
Global Entrepreneurship Monitor report finds entrepreneurship a satisfying career choice worldwide - especially for women within innovation-driven economies.
(Santiago, Chile- January, 2014) Entrepreneurs are among the happiest individuals across the globe when it comes to personal well-being and satisfaction with their work conditions according to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2013 Global Report.
The GEM report’s special topic, Entrepreneurship and Well-Being, also found that women entrepreneurs from innovation-driven economies showed, on average, higher degrees of personal well-being than their male counterparts.
