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The UK Medical Research Council has appointed Dave Tapolczay as head of its technology transfer company, MRC Technology.

Scotland launched the latest version of its strategy to become one of world’s top locations for life sciences by 2020, as the hopes vested in two of its leading research companies Stem Cell Sciences and Ardana Biosciences, turned to dust.

The 2007 European Innovation Scoreboard published this month shows a continued process of convergence within the EU.

The EU is investing a further €12 million in a network that connects countries in Asia and Pacific to Europe to carry out research projects.

A Swedish report into levels of research funding for universities since the mid 1990s shows resources increased up to 2002 and then stagnated.

Corporate incubators bridge the seed funding gap, but apart from pocket money what can start-ups learn from their foster parents?