Danfoss joins forces with local partners to establish a Center for Industrial Electronics. The new university center in Sønderborg will contain research, innovation and test facilities at international top level and will at the same time provide a basis for offering completely new engineering courses in electronics at the civil engineer and diploma engineer level. Read more about Danfoss invests massively in a new university center[…]
The EU’s innovation performance last year continued to grow despite somewhat uneven progress observed around Europe. This is one of the main findings of the latest Innovation Scoreboard published today by the European Commission. Overall, innovation performance has improved in 15 countries, though large differences exist between these Member States. Sweden remains the innovation leader Read more about EU innovation: some improvements but more even progress is needed[…]
An international team, led by a scientist from the University of Sussex, have today unveiled the first practical blueprint for how to build a quantum computer, the most powerful computer on Earth. This huge leap forward towards creating a universal quantum computer is published today (1 February 2017) in the influential journal Science Advances. It Read more about First ever blueprint unveiled to construct a large scale quantum computer[…]
Specific Challenge: The challenge is to operationalise an Open Science rationale for one or more of the societal challenges defined under Horizon 2020. This should be done by a knowledge coalition based on a quadruple helix model of innovation in which civil society organisations, industry, government and academia are committed to work together and share Read more about Putting Open Science into action[…]
Specific Challenge: While the state-of-the-art micro/nano-electronics technologies and their manufacturing are being further advanced towards market-readiness in the context of the ECSEL Joint Undertaking, it is essential to prepare for the future of the electronics industry the next wave of industry-relevant technologies to extend the limits (technological and/or economic) mainstream technologies will be facing in Read more about Micro- and nanoelectronics technologies[…]
To drive forward research in machine learning, Bosch is establishing an endowed chair at Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen, near Stuttgart. Over a period of ten years, the company will fund the chair with a total of 5.5 million euros. “We want to attract the best minds to this region. World-class research will make Baden-Württemberg Read more about Endowed chair for fostering the next generation of researchers[…]
RenewIT, a European Commission research project, today launched the final version of its free online tool for the design and placement of energy-efficient and renewable-powered data centres. The RenewIT Tool is designed to help data centre operators, designers and other stakeholders select the optimum combination of efficiency measures and renewables for energy and carbon sustainable Read more about Free web tool for renewable data centre design and location planning[…]
Carlos Moedas – Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation Last week, The Washington Post published an article about Alexandra Elbakyan, a 27 year old student from Kazakhstan and Founder of Sci-Hub, an online database of nearly 50 million pirated academic journal articles. To some, she is “The Robin Hood of Science.” To others, she is Read more about Why open science is a good thing ?[…]
Researchers have discovered a so far unknown formation mechanism of cavitation bubbles by means of a model calculation. In the Science Advances journal, they describe how oil-repellent and oil-attracting surfaces influence a passing oil flow. Depending on the viscosity of the oil, a steam bubble forms in the transition area. This so-called cavitation may damage Read more about Computer Simulation Discloses New Effect of Cavitation[…]
Interactive 3D technologies (I3D) part of Microsoft Research and contributed to the HoloLens project makes one step forward to the promising future bringing holoportation to reality. Holoportation is a new type of 3D capture technology that allows high-quality 3D models of people to be reconstructed, compressed and transmitted anywhere in the world in real time. When combined Read more about HoloLens team brings Holoportation to reality and is looking to hire more researchers[…]
Nanowires are believed to be important elements in several different areas, such as in future generations of transistors, energy efficient light emitting diodes (LEDs) and solar cells. The fact that it is possible to affect how nanowires are formed and grow has been known for a long time. What researchers have now been able to Read more about New research shows how nanowires can be formed[…]
IDTechEx Research projects that the graphene market will grow to $220m in 2026. This forecast is at the material level and does not count the value of graphene-enabled products. In many instances graphene is only an additive with low wt% values. A continual decline in average sales prices will accompany the revenue growth, meaning that Read more about IDTechEx Research: The Graphene Market to Reach 3,800 Tonnes per Year in 2026[…]