It’s a no brainer: obstacle-free exchange between research and industry will bring benefits to both, and above all will have positive repercussions for society. But despite the evidence, businesses and research labs view each other as alien worlds. Changing this view is one of the challenges of the new European Commission funded Initial Training Network (ITN) awarded to the CNIC (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-ITN). The ITN, called CardioNext, started in the last quarter of 2013. This month we have managed to finish the…