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The Hungarian biotech sector is ahead of the rest of the new European Union member states pack, but it remains stymied by a lack of managers with a scientific background.

Microsoft France's support scheme for start-ups has begun its second year, with success at just one of the 25 companies it has helped covering the costs of the programme over two years. And now Microsoft’s subsidiaries in Germany and the UK are joining in.

The common wisdom among technology-policy analysts is that Europe is bad at transferring technology out of its great universities and into the commercial world. A new study asserts that, by some measures, Europe may actually outperform the U.S., Canada and Australia.

A new report in the USA will be the basis for some of the work on the health and safety of nanotechnology.

A battle between IBM and Microsoft for the hearts and minds of tech start-ups took a new turn as IBM announced free technical-development help to promising VC-backed firms.

The latest announcement from BASF Venture Capital America Inc. brings back memories of the dash for energy R&D 30 years ago.

Milken Institute, a California-based think-tank founded by famous financier Michael Milken, published earlier this week a report on global trends in university biotechnology transfer. This is an impressive piece of work, carried out by a research team of nine and drawing on every conceivable source of data.

An international partnership has started to build a large-scale public infrastructure for sharing research information across Europe.