While the Copenhagen debate is on… Thursday, December 10, 2009
Posted by Luca Segantini in Thinking points.Tags: climate change, copenhagen, global warming
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Why Email No Longer Rules…And what that means for the way we communicate Wednesday, October 14, 2009
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From the Wall Street Journal
Email has had a good run as king of communications. But its reign is over.
In its place, a new generation of services is starting to take hold—services like Twitter and Facebook and countless others vying for a piece of the new world. And just as email did more than a decade ago, this shift promises to profoundly rewrite the way we communicate—in ways we can only begin to imagine.
Hans Rosling’s new insights on poverty Wednesday, October 14, 2009
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Who says statistics are boring? Try this video and you’ll want to change career…
There is definitely a different way to present complex information in a captivating way.
How we work in 2009 Friday, August 28, 2009
Posted by Luca Segantini in Thinking points.Tags: 2009, career, consulting, freelance, life/work balance, part-time, working style
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This post is a collection of pieces and opinions on how our workstyle has changed through the last 10-15 years. When I say ‘us’ I mean professionals who gave up – more or less voluntarily… - the comfort of a corporate job and gone down (or up?) the way of an entrepreneurial career, freelancing, consulting or else.
Some of the descriptions and definitions ring a lot of bells to me.
- Tina Brown – The Gig Economy
Now that everyone has a project-to-project freelance career, everyone is a hustler.
- Dalton Conley – Welcome to elsewhere
For a new breed of professional, life is a blend of work and leisure, where you’re never in the right place.
The list will grow as I find more articles.
Forgotten anniversary: 10 years Saturday, January 17, 2009
Posted by Luca Segantini in Thinking points.Tags: 1999, 2009, birthday, euro
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We all let this one slip… On 1 January, 1999 the Euro was born.
Become one of the European ACES Friday, January 16, 2009
Posted by Luca Segantini in Business update, Projects.Tags: ACES Awards, europe, innovation, Karolinska, R&D, Stockholm
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Starting up! conference and ACES Awards 2008 Saturday, November 29, 2008
Posted by Luca Segantini in Business update.Tags: Amgen, Cefic, Ephicas, innovation, ISIS, Johnson & Johnson, Karolinska, Kee Square, life sciences, Microsoft, P&G, science & technology, Scottish Enterprise, Stockholm, Viinnova, Wellcome Trust
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Say you have a new idea – what you think may be a good way to treat a disease, generate cheap energy, or collaborate on-line. How do you get the idea into the marketplace?
Start your own company, has been the answer over the past decade for a growing number of European researchers.
To celebrate these researchers-turned-entrepreneurs, on 2 December in Stockholm the Science|Business Innovation Board, a blue-ribbon panel of leaders in industry, academia and policy, will pick the winners of the first pan-European awards for university enterprise. At a conference and awards ceremony, the week before the Nobel Prizes are awarded there, the ACES Academic Enterprise Awards will be presented to winners in six categories, by dignitaries including Odile Quintin, the European Union’s Director-General for Education and Culture.
Dilbert on brainstorming Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Posted by Luca Segantini in Thinking points.Tags: brainstorming, cartoon, humour
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Counterfeiting: EU moves toward mass serialisation Thursday, October 2, 2008
Posted by Luca Segantini in Thinking points.Tags: drug counterfeiting, europe, mass serialisation, pharmaceutical, pharmacists
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I have recently been engaged in a project exploring the benefits of mass serialisation technology with regards to improving communication between pharmacists and pharmaceutical companies. Here, I outline the potential upside to industry in terms of tackling counterfeit trade. Published on SCRIP in August 2008. (more…)
Academic entrepreneurs: do they exist? Monday, September 22, 2008
Posted by Luca Segantini in Business update.Tags: academic entrepreneurship, awards, Karolinska, ScienceBusiness
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Innovation is the lifeblood of a vibrant economy ’ but in Europe, it’s often said, a risk-averse culture in its universities prevents innovative ideas from getting out of the labs and into the marketplace.
To help change that culture, the first Europe-wide awards for academic enterprise are being launched, with a coalition of leading European universities, multinational corporations, foundations, and the Science|Business news service. The awards will be promoted at a series of events and on-line activities through 2008/9, and will be overseen by the Science|Business Innovation Board. The programme will culminate in a conference and awards ceremony in Stockholm in December 2008.
My role is to put together and deliver the awards programme over 2008, working with the ScienceBusiness and the Karolinska teams.
