This year’s MIT $100K Business Plan Contest semi-finalists was named in March. This list is interesting among other reasons because a large component of success in entrepreneurship and venture capital can be attributed

The 100 Rules For Being An Entrepreneur Ideas are worthless. Just do it! How to raise capital? Get a customer. Get money from customer. Get more customers. Build more services

It’s going to break many hearts around Europe where innovation clusters have been strongly advocated at all levels of policy making but a recent Norwegian study found that a firms

Recent reports in the Harvard Business Review question the efficiency of the traditional Silicon Valley venture capital innovation funding model and more emphasis is now being placed on how to

The European Innovation Scoreboard 2009 which provides a comparative assessment of the innovation performance across 29 indicators. Of the EU27 member states, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Sweden and the UK are

Financial returns on investments in venture capital funds have been poor for the last decade. Since the 1999 vintage year, the median internal rate of return has not reached 3

InnoTools – Measured and Managed Innovation in Companies A Nordic Innovation Center Project Studies have shown that companies’ return on innovation (ROI) or hit rate is somewhere between 2-10%. That