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  • The State of European Innovation
    Only 10 European outfits made a recent BusinessWeek ranking of innovative companies from around the globe. Still, Europe is going strong in several segments
  • How Nokia Users Drive Innovation
    Through online aps such as Sports Tracker and Nokia Beta Lab, the Finnish handset giant gathers customers' ideas from around the world—virtually free Slide Show: Nokia's Dream Phones
  • Bureaucracy Hampers an E. coli Weapon
    French biotech GeneSystems developed a system to detect the deadly bacterium before it reaches supermarket shelves, but it faces red tape and resistance
  • Danone Innovates to Help Feed the Poor
    Along with Grameen Group and Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, the French food company has created a nutritious and inexpensive yogurt for Bangladesh
  • Asset4 Enriches Risk Assessment
    Investors want to know more about companies than ever—and they are increasingly turning to the nonfinancial metrics of Asset4
  • Europe's Carbon-Trading Pioneers
    The cap-and-trade-emissions market has spawned a host of innovators who act as brokers and deal in carbon dioxide futures and derivatives
  • Wacky Ideas at Geneva Inventions Expo
    The fair, which brings inventors and investors together, features 1,000 new creations including artificial nose hair and a self-making bed
  • Joocing the Next Billion Internet Users
    Paris startup Jooce has an idea: Instead of one laptop per child, why not many virtual desktops per public computer? It's catching on
  • France Telecom Goes to the Movies
    With its three-screen service, Orange—the telco's mobile, Internet, and TV arm—makes sure you're wired for entertainment wherever you are
  • Applause for Europe's Top Inventors
    The European Inventor of the Year awards honor the makers of the best patented inventions in research and industry. The recognition may be the push they need Slide Show: Six Ideas that Changed the World
  • Europe's Innovation Hot Spots
    Governments are making efforts to propel innovation on the continent by creating competitive clusters centered around a specific sector Slide Show: Europe's Seedbeds of New Ideas
  • Jean Nouvel's Moment in the Sun
    Winning the Pritzker Prize makes him this year's architectural "it boy," but the French architect has proven he's no flash in the pan Slide Show: A Pritzker for Jean Nouvel

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