Cabinet underlines importance of research and development
The appointment of a national research and innovation council was approved by the cabinet on Tuesday to promote research and entrepreneurship, Finance Minister Harris Georgiades...
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Can elephants innovate? Possible, not easy
Innovation pulses by Dimis Michaelides Who are the most innovative companies? Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Google, Facebook, Alibaba, Tesla spring to mind. They created a...
Innovative research in the heart of Nicosia’s old city
The launch of the new research centre on interactive media, smart systems and emerging technologies (Rise) took place on Wednesday morning in the old part...
Undersecretary Petrides says reunification to offer another reform chance
Undersecretary to the President Constantinos Petrides said that a settlement of the Cyprus Problem could provide an opportunity to address shortcomings in Cyprus’s public administration....
Negotiations underway to prepare Cyprus for European Space Agency Convention
Negotiations between Cyprus and the European Space Agency (ESA) for the upcoming ECS Agreement that will promote innovation and research in the sector are under...
Nicosia pop-up festival ready to roll
Nicosia municipality has awarded shop space to 39 out of 70 applicants for this year’s pop-up festival, it said on Wednesday. The festival is being...
Time for the government to embrace innovation
By Dimis Michaelides THE WORLD has embraced innovation. More and more people are imagining and implementing new and valuable things at a relentlessly accelerating pace....
A New ‘Longitude Prize’
By Gwynne Dyer Voting began this week to choose the problem that the winner of the Longitude Prize 2014 will have to solve – and...
Common myths about innovation
By Theodore Panayotou While people have begun to accept that the new economic model of the country must incorporate innovation and entrepreneurship, very few see...
An entrepreneurial pilgrimage to Israel
By Theodore Panayotou Traditionally, the main reason for Cypriots to go to Israel was on a pilgrimage to the holy places. In recent years,...
