How to Debunk Myths About the Public Sector and Achieve More Inclusive Growth  How many times do we hear that to increase innovation and competitiveness, we need more market and less state? This commonplace position ignores history: the IT, biotech, nanotech and emerging ‘green’ revolutions have all been initiated by a courageous…

Julian Netzer is empowering small businesses by helping them build their own mobile app platform in the simplest way possible – step by step.

PRESENTED BY Robert Brüll NOMINATED BY RWTH Aachen University Tags: Composites, Glass Fibre

Londa Schiebinger is the John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science at Stanford University, and Founding Director of Gendered Innovations in Science, Health & Medicine, Engineering, and Environment. She is a leading international expert on gender in science and technology and has addressed the United Nations, European Parliament, and…

Isaac Newton is credited with the famous saying: “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” But how did he know which shoulders to stand on? This Falling Walls Circle Round Table examines scientific credibility in two ways: first, by looking at how public…

MDC has excellent structural stability and high catalyst activity.Comparing to conventional ozonation process, MDC/HCO process was 30% more effective for organic removal and 50% less energy intensive.   Tags: Engineering, Environment & Nature, Advanced water and wastewater treatment.

A scalable protein-protein interaction screen helps unraveling the pathogenesis for disease mutations e.g. GLUT1 deficiency syndrome, thereby providing a possible mechanism for a range of other cases.

HOW MARINE SCIENCES DISCOVER HIDDEN RESOURCES Even though we are on a planet with more than seventy percent of its surface covered by seawater and a large proportion of its population living along the coastlines of the world’s oceans, we know more about the dark side of the moon than…

The nominating institution Curriki on the breakthrough: The challenge facing education worldwide is the lack of high quality easy to use tools for educators to create truly engaging digital learning experiences. For too long, the technologies required to build and publish Next Generation learning experiences have been out of reach…

The nominating institution Monash on the project: Lying at the intersection between art, science and blindness, Tandori’s exhibitions use interactive sculptures to engage and inspire audiences of all ages and abilities. Her breakthrough is making art and science exhibitions inclusive, accessible and available to everyone globally. Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Discrimination,…