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Wanted: Fresh ideas for a smart, clean and efficient electric grid. That call was placed in Munich on 15 July 2010 at the European launch of the GE Ecomagination challenge. This challenge makes available $200 million (160 million euro) for innovative ideas in digital energy.

Watch this video playlist for individual interviews with:
- Tore Land, Director Ecomagination EMEA, GE;
- Rich Hudson, CEO of Science Business;
- Gina Domanig, Managing Partner, Emerald Technology Ventures;
- Antoine Harary, Director, Strategy One;
- Ramon Wyss, Professor, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm;
- and Wiktor Raldow, Head of Unit, DG Research, European Commission.

For more information about the Ecomagination challenge, visit:
http://innovatingthefuture.blogactiv.eu.

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Vincent Van Quickenborne is Belgium’s Minister for Economy and Reform. He talks about Belgium’s EU presidency ambitions to reach a breakthrough on a single European patent by December 2010. Linguistic issues are the main obstacle, he says in this interview conducted 14 July at a chemical industry conference in Antwerp.

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