Author Archives: BabakF

EUROPA – Press Releases – € 2.5 billions to boost business competitiveness and SMEs 2014 – 2020

By BabakF | Published: December 1, 2011

Promote access to finance and encouraging an entrepreneurial culture, including the creation of new enterprises are the core issues of the new financial support programme, tabled by the European Commission in Brussels today. With a budget of € 2.5 billions over the period 2014-2020, the Programme for the Competitiveness of Enterprises and SMEs, COSME is [...]

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European Institute of Innovation and Technology EIT to create more innovation hubs

By BabakF | Published: December 1, 2011

The European Institute of Innovation and Technology EIT is to significantly step up its efforts to drive innovation and entrepreneurship in the EU with the creation of six new cross-border innovation hubs, known as Knowledge and Innovation Communities KICs, in 2014-2020. The European Commission has allocated a budget of €2.8 billion1 in the next financial [...]

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book review: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

By BabakF | Published: November 27, 2011

This is one of the books that my daughter (10) has been talking about for a while. I read it yesterday afternoon. It was quite exciting and sad at times. It is a beautiful book that really takes you back to your childhood. I should read more children’s books. It is about a china rabbit [...]

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Business and Web 2.0: An interactive feature

By BabakF | Published: November 24, 2011

Explore, track, and customize five years of survey results on how businesses use new Web technologies and tools. via McKinsey Quarterly.

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The Ethics of Authorship: How Should Authorship Be Decided?

By BabakF | Published: November 10, 2011

Assigning authorship can be a tricky business indeed. Whom should you include as an author on a paper, and in what order should you list multiple authors? via Science magazine.

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