Today's Pick: Congress Agrees to Fund All $50m of Social Innovation Fund

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 – “Congress Agrees to Fund All $50m of Social Innovation Fund“.  Find out more under Social Innovation and entrepreneurship.

• Biotechnology “Sizzling market heats up biotech buyout fever”
• Cleantech “World Bank to invest $5.5 billion in North African solar”
• Health care “So You Want to Live to 100? More of Us Will, and Here Is What Life Might Look Like”
• Information and communication technology “Globalive’s Wind Mobile is go for Launch”
• Pharmaceuticals “For Adults, Drug Costs Doubled From ‘96 to ‘06″
• Venture capital “Mike Volker heads up new TSX-traded Green Angel Fund”
• Business and entrepreneurship “How to fail… gloriously”
• Science and innovation “Innovation Network Corporation of Japan seeks to foster open innovation in Japan”
• Social Innovation and entrepreneurship “Congress Agrees to Fund All $50m of Social Innovation Fund”

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