Technology transfer

A Swiss team has developed a reliable blood test for younger, live cows. Now it is looking for investment to develop a test for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans.

On inventive Californians, technology transfer, how to approach the business press, and other insights into R&D management.

Scientists are moving around as never before. And, argues Jean Guinet from the OECD, that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

A politician's gaffe highlights the gender gap in science. Political action, not talk, is what's needed to close it.

New regulations on the registration and testing of chemicals could have some problematic knock-on effects on European R&D – but they could also bring some lucrative work the way of contract research organisations.

With licensing and collaboration now the lifeblood of the drug industry, the annual BIO-Europe get-together was focused on partnering. Nuala Moran was there.

Better, brighter, faster – that's where photonic lasers are trying to take us. A lay guide to the technology.