Martin Kelly looks at the need of the health sector for innovation, ahead of HealthXL's Summit at Stanford on September 26th.

The appointment of VC directors on the boards of listed firms can be understood as an important mechanism in promoting innovation and growth.

Our regular academic columnists look at the importance of business models to innovation.

Traditionally, the technology transfer office (TTO) has managed university generated IP through various agreements with external partners. Although this has been a relatively successful model, the resource requirements and market expertise required have limited the ability of the TTO to effectively manage much of the research partnership driven IP.

This investigation of Canada's system has led to the following six recommendations.

David Teece (pictured), chairman and principal executive officer at Berkeley Research Group and also Thomas W. Tusher Professor in Global Business, Haas School of Business, discusses a new role for boosting entrepreneurship, in an article first published by Huffington Post.

Keynote speech at the Fifth University-Business Forum by Christian Reinaudo (pictured), chief executive (CEO) and president of Agfa Gevaert, sees Europe needing to improve university and business cooperation.

Academics Boris Battistini and Martin Haemmig look at a recent study finding evidence individual venture capitalists are able to secure repeatable investment success.