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Imec helps to improve both the efficiency and cost of solar cells
Imec, together with its project partners, have cooperated within an EU 7th framework program (FP7) project PRIMA to improve both the efficiency and cost of solar cells. In particular, they have worked on a light trapping strategy utilizing metal nanostructures that allows plasmons to increase the absorption within the solar cell structure.
Posted on 25 February 2013
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Majority of entrepreneurs expect to increase their global workforce in 2013 according to EY
Despite economic caution signs the world over, the majority of entrepreneurs — the world’s true business innovators — tell Ernst & Young they expect to increase their global workforce in 2013.So how do they intend to buck trends and market forecasts to create jobs, while the more established companies standby and watch? Innovation. The new report of the Global Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Global job creation: A survey of the world’s most dynamic entrepreneurs, explains how innovation is propelling entrepreneurial companies to expand, even in a static economic climate.
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Posted on 15 February 2013
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Progeno identifies genetic potential for professional breeders
Progeno, a recently established spin-off company of Ghent University (UGent) and Ghent University College (HoGent), offers professional plant and animal breeders access to state-of-the-art breeding and selection methods by means of a highly innovative software engine.
Posted on 15 February 2013
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TED of the Month: E.O. Wilson – Advice to young scientists
The celebrated sociobiologist E.O. Wilson gives advice, collected from a lifetime of experience as a professor at Harvard, to young scientists and reminds us that wonder and creativity are the center of the scientific life.
Posted on 13 February 2013
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