Investment

Cost conundrum: the investment in clinical trials remains the same but approved drugs will have a smaller market. So how is Personalised Medicine to be financed?

The top 1000 UK companies invested more than £26 billion on developing new products, services and improving productivity in 2008.

In 2009, 447 Israeli high-tech companies raised $1.12 billion from local and foreign venture investors, 46 per cent below 2008 levels.

Hendrik Brandis has been appointed Chairman of the venture group of the European Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (EVCA).

The UK government’s efforts to close the funding gap mean that VC investing is dominated by public sector funds, says a new research study.

Merck Serono is to establish a global R&D centre in Beijing, investing more than €150 million over the next four years.

There are signs the financing drought brought on by the credit crunch may be over for European biotechs as investors loosen the purse strings.

The World Gold Council is to co-invest with venture capital firms to accelerate commercialisation of gold-based innovations.

German VCs at last week’s Venture Lounge in Munich showed little appetite for me-too Internet companies.