Work is underway to create a new pan-European legal entity structure that will simplify company incorporation, investment and acquisitions. The primary goal is to streamline compliance activities for high tech startup ventures as part of a drive towards making the continent more competitive globally. In 2024 former Italian Prime Minister and European Central Bank president,…
Following a recent reorganisation of the nation’s publicly funded science research institution structure, the New Zealand government has this week announced a mandated new pathway for science and technology commercialisation from 2026. Science and technology Minister, Shane Reti says that a more consistent national approach to intellectual property management is needed in order to reward…
by Paul Spence – Founder Genius ReFi It has been interesting following the unfolding political and economic events that matter to Europeans of late as the global geopolitical landscape has become disrupted in 2025. Meanwhile as American civil society continues to unravel, science funding is being slashed and top universities find themselves under siege. We…
The 2016 Paris Agreement set the amibitious goal of achieving global net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and limiting temperature rise to 1.5 deg C. With the temperature increase limit almost breached this year, analysts and commentators have already set to work digesting the outcomes of the latest climate COP. Some progress is better than none…
With an estimated 1 million plant and animal species currently facing extinction, member countries of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) devised a framework with 23 targets aimed at stemming the loss of nature by 2030. That was two years ago. This week representatives from 196 nations will reconvene in Cali, Colombia at…
Conflicts, climate change, constrained investment and the requirement to reduce agricultural emissions are all factors impacting our global food production system at present. Novel approaches will be needed in the future if we are to feed an estimated population of 10 Billion by 2050. Foodtech and agritech are likely to play an increasing role in…
