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Innovative digital partnership between Monaco and Luxembourg
07-12-2018
Supporting digitalisation in order to modernise the administration and foster innovation is a priority for both Monaco and Luxembourg. The two countries signed a declaration of intent on 6 December 2018 as a basis of collaboration in the digital field.
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Ehlinger: a testimony to adaptation
06-12-2018
The Ehlinger family could have come up with Charles Darwin’s theory: “It is the one best adapting to change who evolves”. From the sale of coal to the development of real estate activities under the umbrella of the Schuler Group, the history of the Ehlingers is a succession of winds that turn, bounce backs and intuitions rewarded.
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12 Michelin stars for Luxembourg
06-12-2018
Ten Luxembourg restaurants are included in the 2019 Belgium and Luxembourg edition of the Michelin Guide, confirming once more the country’s status as an Eldorado for lovers of fine dining.
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New Happen magazine highlights Industry 4.0
06-12-2018
Hot off the press, the second issue of Happen provides an insight into business opportunities and advantages in Luxembourg and showcases the country’s technological excellence and innovative spirit.
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Leading industrial firms expand in Luxembourg
06-12-2018
Two main players in Luxembourg’s industrial landscape are investing: Ampacet is setting up two new plastics masterbatch production lines at its European headquarters here, and Cebi International is building a completely new research centre
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Life in Luxembourg
06-12-2018
People make places and Luxembourg is no exception. Read about several how foreign CEOs are helping shape the country’s business landscape, why it is the best place to be for innovation and why the Grand Duchy is a great place to live.
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“Do space business with a strong institutional partner”
06-12-2018
Japanese space robotics company ispace opened an office in Luxembourg in February 2017. “We were looking for a European base to expand our business development and operations,” says Managing Director Kyle Acierno. “When the Space Resource initiative was launched, we saw that the vision of the Luxembourg government was very similar to our own.”
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A space agency for business
06-12-2018
Over the past two years, Luxembourg has established itself as the European hotspot for “new space” companies engaged in the commercial exploration and exploitation of space resources. In order to support its fast expanding space community, the country launched a business-oriented space agency in September 2018. The agency will support the industry, attract new companies, develop human resources and offer innovative financial solutions.
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“Guarantee our access to top-level skills”
06-12-2018
With offices in the US, the UK and Singapore, space data and analytics company Spire opened its European headquarters in Luxembourg at the beginning of 2018. It was the SpaceResources.lu initiative and Luxembourg’s innovative vision for the new space economy that first attracted the company’s interest. “Luxembourg definitely has all the ingredients for becoming a main centre for the space economy in the coming decade,” affirms CEO Peter Platzer.
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Hiring app Job Today raises $16 million of venture capital
06-12-2018
Leading New York-based venture capital firm 14W joins the shareholders of Luxembourg start-up Job Today. In only three years, the company has succeeded in developing the number one hiring app on the UK market.
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Caves Bernard Massard: the grapes of joy
04-12-2018
The history of the Caves Bernard-Massard is the result of a fruitful meeting at the beginning of the 20th century, between an oenologist with an entrepreneurial spirit and a lawyer passionate about grapes. A common interest which has passed down the decades, with the company remaining in the family fold. Today the group produces today 4 million bottles a year and employs some 250 people.
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LOIC and EEN-Luxembourg go hand in hand to find the players of the city of the future
03-12-2018
The Luxembourg Open Innovation Club (LOIC), whose objective is to encourage open innovation and meetings between large companies and start-ups, organised an event dedicated to "smart city" and mobility solutions.
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How business is changing the space game
30-11-2018
National space agencies with huge public budgets are no longer the only ones able to venture into space: today, private companies realise and fund their own space missions. The NewSpace Europe conference hosted in Luxembourg on 27-28 November focused on how free enterprise and the use of normal business practices are disrupting the space sector and creating a completely new industry.
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Fedil Innovation Awards: focus on the automotive sector!
30-11-2018
The Fedil - The Voice of Luxembourg's Industry presents, every two years, its Innovation Awards. For the 2018 edition, three of the four awarded projects are applications from the automotive sector.
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Luxinnovation and Maison Moderne are proud to announce the publication of the second issue of Happen
29-11-2018
Happen is an annual business magazine that unveils the technological excellence and innovative spirit of Luxembourg and its companies to an international audience.
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Luxembourg ranks 9th in the world for attracting talent
26-11-2018
Luxembourg ranks 9th in the world for its ability to develop, attract and retain highly skilled professionals. The country even gains one place in this year’s edition of the IMD World Talent Ranking.
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Better network and data security
26-11-2018
Network security and monitoring and data security in the cloud, the two main themes of Luxembourg Internet Days 2018, are both crucial for building a digital economy based on reliability and trust. Prime Minister Xavier Bettel announced the creation of a national centre for DDoS attack filtering during the event.
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Mir paken Holz un: uncovering innovation in the wood sector
22-11-2018
Following on from the Wood Cluster Forum organised at the beginning of last spring, the Luxembourg Wood Cluster has moved on from theory to practice: a half-day bus tour on November 13th brought visitors to four innovative projects based on wood.
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Innovative Medicines Initiative: Consolidating Luxembourg expertise in translational medicine research
22-11-2018
With the development of new informatics tools, medical and life sciences research is rapidly evolving. This gives research centres unprecedented opportunities to analyse medical data. The Bioinformatics Core’s team (and Luxembourg’s ELIXIR-LU Node) at the interdisciplinary Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) of the University of Luxembourg is building the skills and tools needed to make this happen.
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Evvos wins best European agritech start-up award
22-11-2018
Luxembourg start-up Evvos is one of 18 companies that were recognised as the best start-ups in Europe. Evvos won the StartUp Europe Award in the category “agritech” for its innovative solution enabling farmers to measure environmental parameters to support planting, irrigation and harvesting using remote sensors.
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Horizon 2020: Opportunities for business innovation
21-11-2018
With a budget of €74 billion for the period 2014-2020, Horizon 2020 is the EU’s biggest funding programme for research and innovation ever. Companies in Luxembourg are benefitting from this funding to implement their business strategies and develop new innovative offers.
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Present Yourself focused on Industry 4.0
13-11-2018
On 23rd October at the Musée National des Mines de Fer in Rumelange, the 4th Present Yourself event was held, organised by the Luxembourg Materials & Manufacturing Cluster.
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On the way to a circular world
12-11-2018
The concept of the circular economy has often wrongly been considered as a purely environmental initiative, but today the economic and societal interest of the approach is widely recognised. Defining sustainable circular business models and attractive investment opportunities is now crucial to encourage companies to adopt a circular behaviour.
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China Southern, a new LuxairCARGO client
08-11-2018
On 30 October 2018, the China Southern airline landed at Luxembourg Airport to use LuxairCARGO’s services.
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Innovative Medicines Initiative: “A human adventure”
07-11-2018
One of Luxembourg’s main hospitals, the Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg (CHL), is actively taking part in the European project INNODIA that aims to fight type 1 diabetes. The project receives funding from the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI), the world’s biggest public-private partnership in the field of life sciences.
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Winter key events for Horizon 2020
07-11-2018
Luxinnovation’s EU Funding team has compiled all important info days, brokerage events, congresses and conferences until the end of 2018. Please take a look at the list and choose the events that are the most interesting for you. For any more questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
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Luxembourg – fertile ground for growth of Green Tech and Industry 4.0 start-ups
07-11-2018
Green Tech and Industry 4.0 are two major emerging technology trends. Luxembourg is at the forefront of innovation in both fields, as can be seen by a number of initiatives being implemented throughout the country.
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Mapping hotel DNA
06-11-2018
Luxembourg-based start-up Travelsify uses artificial intelligence to help internet users find the hotels and restaurants that can provide them with exactly the experience they are looking for. The company has recently raised €5 million in a new funding round led by AccorHotels.
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Start-up expertise for safeguarding data
06-11-2018
Data has become the most precious asset in the new digital economy – and, as a consequence, the target of increasingly frequent and sophisticated cyber attacks. Luxinnovation spoke to four start-ups about current cybersecurity trends and their view of the Luxembourg cybersecurity ecosystem.
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Luxembourg on top 10 list for economic potential of digital economies of the future
02-11-2018
The country is ranked 8th in the world and 2nd in Europe for economic potential in the fDi’s Digital Economies of the Future 2018/19 study.
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