Seventeen Companies, Thirteen Billion Dollars: The Private Race for Nuclear Fusion Speeds Up

Inside a warehouse in Massachusetts, engineers at Commonwealth Fusion Systems have spent months fine-tuning superconducting magnets designed to confine plasma hotter than the core of the sun. It’s one of many such sites, scattered across the US and Europe, that now make up what industry watchers are calling a race: the private race for commercial […]
203 companies applied for innovation funding in the Canary Islands. Only 24 got it

Two hundred and three applications, twenty-four funded. That ratio, on its own, says more about the vitality, and the frustration, of the Canary Islands’ innovation ecosystem than any official press release could. The Consejería de Universidades, Ciencia e Innovación y Cultura, through the Agencia Canaria de Investigación, Innovación y Sociedad de la Información (ACIISI), published […]