Clever intellectual property (IP) management and carefully designed government policies can help SMEs raise more finance, reducing the risk for banks and venture capital investors, according to new Science|Business reports
Research lobbyists gathered in Brussels to tell the European Commission what they like and what is niggling them about the €77B research programme to date
The London Project to Cure Blindness reported completion of the first procedure to implant a patch seeded with retinal cells derived from an embryo. The treatment is for macular degeneration, a leading cause of vision loss
A new Science|Business analysis puts the spotlight on the most innovative clusters in Europe, uncovering what it takes to translate research from bench to bedside and highlighting the crucial need for policy support, innovation pull, and access to finance
Not content with helping his country throw off Soviet shackles and lay the ground for the tech revolution dubbed ‘E-stonia’, Jaak Aaviksoo is returning to school to help steer a new generation into doing it all over again
Data flows between Europe and US may be restricted following the judgement, with US tech giants being required to store all personal data belonging to Europeans on Europe-based servers
UK pharma company jumps on the open access R&D bandwagon, offering access to data on over 50 of its drugs, with the aim of inspiring new combination therapies for cancer
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