Uni-supported innovators to pitch at showcase events
FOUNDERS of University of Edinburgh-supported start-ups will be able to showcase their companies to an audience of investors at two events taking in March.
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Nigeria: An Economic Upswing Foretold
Oil prices have rebounded from their recent lows and may yet provide temporary relief to Nigeria, allowing the incoming administration of President-elect Muhammadu Buhari...
Middle East: Qatar – Speak Softly and Carry a Large Bag...
Looking to buy up a fair chunk of the world around it, Qatar has set its sights on Asia and the US as it...
North America: Canada – Political Upset Ushers in New Era
Around this time last year, a Canadian TV station ran a poll and found that most of the population thought the country’s politics grey...
Winnie Byanyima: From the Bush to the Global Stage
Oxfam International’s dynamic director Winnie Byanyima possesses a most extraordinary CV. Her career includes working as Uganda’s first female aeronautical engineer, living in the...
The IP man cometh: China bows to international will
East is east and West is west, and our man in the middle, businessman LEO AUSTIN — UK-based but with decades of experience in...
Margaret Hodge: The Scourge of Tax Dodgers
The pinnacle of Margaret Hodge’s four decades in public life has arguably been the five years spent as the very high profile scourge of...
University’s incubator programme selects cancer-fighting start-ups
TWENTY start-ups — eight of them operating projects in the field of cancer — have been selected for a University of Edinburgh incubator programme...
Hail to the Maintainers
About ten years ago, leftist firebrand satirist Freek de Jonge, the grand old man of Dutch stand-up comedy, turned to conservative newspaper De Telegraaf...
Africa: Tunisia – Determined and Confident
Cited five years ago as the cradle from which the Arab Spring engulfed the Middle East with protests, rebellion, and other expressions of public...
