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    Awards for Europe’s inventors – EUbusinessWeek 521

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    EUbusiness Week top stories: EU crisis summit on Libya set for March 11; EU moves towards ‘single energy market’ with new regulator; Eurozone ups growth forecast, sees Mideast inflation threat; EU probes allegations of price-fixing in e-books; HIV protesters tell India to defy EU drug demands; Air pollution could reduce life by almost two years: study

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    4. EU probes allegations of price-fixing in e-books
    5. HIV protesters tell India to defy EU drug demands
    6. Air pollution could reduce life by almost two years: study

    Publisher’s Note

    The theme of this year’s European Inventor Award, for which the shortlist was announced on Thursday, is very much one of saving and improving lives rather than wild and wacky ideas.

    Glasses that adjust to the wearer’s eyesight, titanium implants for your teeth and steel fibres which allow architects to twist and bend concrete are candidates for what is Europe’s highest distinction for inventors.

    European inventors set global innovation standards, and this prize, which the European Patent Office will present on 19 May, gives inventors recognition they deserve. It celebrates the spirit of invention which can make a major contribution to economic growth and to helping people in their daily lives.
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    Nick Prag
    Publisher, EUbusiness

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