German Automotive Industry: Pulling Strings Together in Africa

Flanked by policy the German Automotive Industry is strengthening its foothold in Africa, but it comes at a cost. China is not a passive bystander. Interview with Marius Ochel of German Association of the Automotive Industry on “Partner Afrika”. What has been achieved so far, next steps, the expansion strategy beyond South Africa, and stakes in the African Continental Free Trade Area.Read more ...

Good or Unusable Artificial Intelligence for Autonomous Driving

Putting artificial intelligence (AI) on its feet is crucial to provide for safety in autonomous driving. While is important, it is not the “Holy Grail”, warns Mario Trapp, Executive Director Fraunhofer Institute for Cognitive Systems. He explains different AI tools and reminds of the limits of in-silico learningRead more ...

The Laboratory Furniture Market

- Assessment and Outlook

With often shaky market data, how can you sort it out for business? Today, laboratory furniture manufacturers come under pressure – not only in Europe, but also in the United States, or Japan. Tobias Thiele, a seasoned executive of the laboratory industry provides a strategic view on the worldwide furniture market. Years later, his observations reveal a remarkable farsightedness. Includes data on United States laboratory markets and activity domains of Analytical Instrument Manufacturers in Japan independently collected by B2Bioworld.Read more ...

Digital Health

Health Apps for YEPPs – Forget about regulations?

Engineering privacy in the era of tightening public concern about oversight and regulationsRead more ...

Metrics for Health and Wellness

Personalised medicine? It’s about health. A systems look at human genetic diagnostics and the road ahead for next-generation sequencing by Leroy Hood, President of the Institute for Systems Biology at Seattle, Washington (US)Read more ...

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Yamaha’s Brazilian Flex-Fuel Bike. Years too late to re-program Honda Moto

Creeping Risks of Regular Overtime Work

Lobbying ethanol plants in the United States - “Some expectations were very aggressive…”

Opening up Emerging Markets for Rapid Diagnostics and Point-of-Care Assays

Patenting and Innovation in Japan

Plants are Nature’s Best Chemists

Smells of Change in American Coffee Consumption

Teeth to the Convention on Biological Diversity

Accessing Biomass in Russia

Amazing Graze - Huffs and Bluffs in the Dairy Industry

Stem Cells – Failings and Deliveries

Public-Private Partnership to Prevent Non-communicable Diseases

Lab Automation: Everyone Re-invents the Wheel

Re-positioning Turkey’s Chemicals Industry

Easier Access to Patent Claims Encoded in Chinese

Top Trade Fair Organisers Worldwide 2012-2014

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Innovation – Try Again, Fail Again, Fail Better

Future Lab Work: Designing and Testing Environments

Defining The Exhibition Industry's Core Business Globally

Prospects of Enzyme Engineering and Biofuels Markets in Russia

Riding ahead of demand in the trade fair industry

Managing Ideas, Tools, and People for Chemicals Manufacturing

REACH in Practice - Biofuels and Lubricity Agents as Example

What Future for the Chemicals Industry?

Upheaval in Iran’s Mining, Minerals, and Steel Industries

Eurasia-Europe Gas and Oil Pipelines: Impact on Greece

BIO 2009: lobby show, not mirroring global biotech

Turkey’s Chemicals Industry in Search of Modernisation

Bio-Based Economy? What’s in it for Business

Customs Sequencing Markets

Emerging Market North Korea?