Gentle purchase incentives can lead customers to choose groceries with higher animal husbandry standards more often. A recent study at the University of Bonn at least suggests this. The researchers used two different animal welfare label posters as “nudges.” Each poster itself changed the consumer behavior of participants shopping in a virtual supermarket. The share of products with higher animal welfare standards in the shopping cart was highest when both posters were combined. Further studies have yet to clarify the extent to which the results can be transferred to real shopping situations. The study has been published in the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics. 

Collaboration through the RAPID institute cut capital costs 65% and operating costs 60% by moving a chemical process from batch to continuous production.

As one of the world’s most revered gourmet foods, some truffles can sell for more than €1,000 per kilogram, making cultivation a lucrative business.

A growing class of patient investors in private capital markets is helping founder- and family-led companies scale, navigate succession and retain control – while delivering attractive returns

A new review in Journal of Management Science and Engineering maps nearly five decades of climate adaptation economics, covering 6,248 studies from 1978 to 2025. It shows how households, firms, markets and governments adapt to climate risk, why adaptation and mitigation must be coordinated, and where future research needs better data, causal evidence and models of inequality.

Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) has secured £4.8 million from NHS England to continue delivering the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme (CEP), which helps National Health Service staff develop innovations alongside their day jobs.

Since launching with ARU in 2016, CEP has supported the creation of 691 businesses that address real-world healthcare challenges and helped raise more than £1.27 billion of investment.

Advances in foundation models (FM) have opened the gates to an advanced use of artificial intelligence for healthcare. FMs are an AI system with a great ability to perform accurately on new sets of data or tasks, instead of just memorizing the material it was trained with. Vision-language foundation models (VLFM) are particularly of interest to clinicians as a means to aid in report generation and question answering, with vision-language agents (VLAs) being representative of the next frontier for AI acting in a healthcare space.