Technology transfer

The EU and China are launching a project with to cut global emissions of greenhouse gases, giving Europe emission quotas and “greening” coal-fired power stations in China.

The open-source software company Red Hat is opening a centre for support and R&D in Serbia, building on a project initiated in 2005 by Belgrade University to create an incubator for new technologies.

This month the European Research Council is launched – and if it succeeds, it will usher in radical change in university research.

Venture capitalists are on a roll: in the past week two more firms confirmed the closing of significant new funds, to add to five others announced this year.

The UK’s system for pricing drugs is to move from one based on controlling profits to a value-based approach. The switch has implications for other countries in Europe.

The light and dark blues have found new competitive pursuit that doesn't involve rowing down The Thames, or fighting in the Twickenham mud -- innovation.

Free money does not appeal to the large number of businesses in the UK that fail to apply for R&D tax relief.

The first programme in a multinational scheme to generate vaccines needed in the developing world by guaranteeing a market in advance of their development has got under way.