Investment

The Golden Triangle Partnership, representing networking organisations in Cambridge, London and Oxford, has announced the signing of an agreement with BIOCOM.

The cost-cutting provoked by the global economic downturn is likely to have a long-term impact on the life sciences industries, says a new report.

The Irish government has announced that the United Technologies Corporation is to establish an energy and security research centre in Ireland.

France’s software sector has resisted the economic crisis and is innovating and creating jobs, with SMEs driving the industry, says a new report.

France’s small biopharmaceutical and life science companies have been weakened by the financial crisis and had to face a drastic drop in investment in 2009.

There is still uncertainty among investors about the commercial promise of the emerging field of personalised medicine.

Venture capitalists have called for the creation of a Green Investment Bank to accelerate private sector investment.

The £3.5 billion a year currently spent on publicly-funded research generates an annual output of £45 billion in UK companies, according to a new report.