Hundreds of jobs have been created by the new multi-award winning financial model, designed to help entrepeneurs get their businesses off the ground.

With Galileo providing users with free of charge global positioning, navigation and timing information, several forward-looking companies are creating Galileo-enabled receivers, chipsets and modules – many of which are already available on the market.

Business Planet travels to Germany to meet experts and entrepreneurs revolutionsing the way we store energy.

This week Business Planet travelled to Rome where an innovative young company Echolight has developed a new way to help Europe's ageing population with the help of EU funding.

A Slovenian company is creating new business opportunities by optimizing data mined by the EU's Copernicus programme from outer space.

Find out how one all-female SME on the Portuguese island of Madeira has successfully conquered the international stage.

The Enterprise Europe Network finds funding for innovation, helping to access new international markets.

An inspiring European initiative is helping innovators put their skills to resolving some the big issues facing society

Find out how children in Estonia learn about becoming an entrepreneur through role-play and games.

Do you want to give your start-up the best chance to scale-up and thrive in the EU? There are solutions to hand

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This week in Business Planet we look at the problem posed by space debris and meet some of those who are developing solutions.

The EU's COSME scheme helps SMEs obtain finance via bank guarantees or equity.