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Sanofi-aventis has signed a research partnership with AVIESAN, the French Life Sciences and Healthcare Alliance.

Industrial biotechnology company Bioamber has announced the successful start-up and commissioning of the world’s first bio-based succinic acid plant.

France is to invest €35 billion in new funding for universities and innovation, and looks forward to a new “Golden Era”.

The number of overseas companies establishing operations in France’s high tech clusters is continuing to increase on the back of the country’s generous R&D tax credit system.

France’s newly autonomous universities are setting out to create foundations on the model of Harvard and Yale – and getting caught up in France’s bureaucratic jungle.

In a series of six articles, Science|Business looks at how the G-20’s $200 billion of stimulus money will be spent. This week, France.

France Biotech’s newly elected Administrative Council have appointed André Choulika as Chairman to replace long-standing leader Philippe Pouletty.

France’s Strategic Investment Fund is coming to the aid of the country’s biotechs, setting up a partnership with the industry body France Biotech.