Over the past six months, for example, the Greeks would probably have sided with the anti-war camp in Europe over Iraq, had they not been constrained in their role as EU president to be scrupulously neutral.

ECONOMIST: Berlusconi��s blunder

Since first rounds are down by 30% over the past few years, there will be a constrained supply of later stage companies in 2013-2015.

FORBES: Early Stage Biotech Financing: Fewer, Leaner, and Better?

The ability to share data about customers, and to take an aggregated mass-customisation approach, is growing fast, though constrained by the need to reassure consumers over privacy.

ECONOMIST: Death by 1,000 clicks