Today's Pick: Sixteen per cent of high-impact, high-tech firms founded by immigrant entrepreneurs

Here’s the round-up of the week in the newsfeeds. Below I highlight my favourite articles of the week from each category.

Today’s Top Pick – “Sixteen percent of high-impact, high-tech firms founded by immigrant entrepreneurs” (see more on immigration and innovation in “Diverse communities are innovative communities“). Read more of these kinds of stories in the Business and Entrepreneurship feed.

• Biotechnology “Supporting New Biotechs Using Incubator Network Created At Mission Bay”
• Pharmaceuticals “WHO Recommends Vaccine Makers Move Forward In Mass Production Of H1N1 Vaccine”
• Cleantech “Renewable Energy Accounts for 13% of U.S. Electricity by April 2009″
• Information and Communication Technology “Google Voice seeks to bypass long-distance charges”
• Venture Capital “Investors Watching For ‘Second Wave’ Of Mobile Tech”
• Business and Entrepreneurship “Sixteen Percent Of High-Impact, High-Tech Firms Founded By Immigrant Entrepreneurs”
• Science and Innovation “High-tech cloth is first to shed scalding water”
• Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship “Four Ecotowns Given The Green Light”

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