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Record venture capital and heated deal environment propelled biotechnology industry forward in 2007, says Ernst & Young’s biotech report for last year.

Finnish researcher Jyrki Ali-Yrkkö, of the Helsinki School of Economics, has shown it is possible to increase the R&D activities of companies through public funding.

UK researchers from Imperial College and Bristol University are to study the development of research management as a profession.

In 2007 the Swiss National Science Foundation awarded grants worth a total of CHF 531 million, and despite record application numbers the success rate increased.