Technology transfer

Researchers gathered in Brussels this week to hear details of the Framework Programme 7 Marie Curie scheme which will provide €400 million between now and 2013 to fund staff exchanges between businesses and universities.

The UN “think tank” wants to step up collaborations, says its new rector. Part of a series on university tech-transfer strategies.

The pace of new product introductions picked up in the US in 2006, although the number of start-up companies spun off from research institutions fell, according a new survey.