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Despite times of severe macroeconomic difficul- ties new innovative technologies are conquering the market. Thin Film Electronics with PARC (Xerox), for example, unveil the first scalable printed CMOS memory, the organic equivalent of CMOS circuitry called Thinfilm Addressable Memory™ [page 34]. The listed company Thin Film Electronics

(OSLO: THIN) is a leading provider of non-volatile memory products based

International investors still put their money in technology companies despite the existing diffi- culties in Europe. That‘s the good news. We are publishing the latest numbers according to the National Venture Capital Association on page 37. In the second quarter of 2011 venture capital investment activity increased by 19% in terms of both dollars and the number of deals compared to the first quarter of 2011. Most surprisingly, the software industry still received the highest level of funding for all industries (263 deals), followed by biotechnology (96 deals) and industrial/energy (75 deals).

Over the last months we have often covered the material graphene, a novel material to be used in electronics and solar cells. Now, we spoke with Dr. Elena Polyakova, CEO of Graphene Labora- tories, Inc., one of the key players in graphene materials. We spoke about their products and future strategy

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