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Venture capitalists are on a roll: in the past week two more firms confirmed the closing of significant new funds, to add to five others announced this year.

The UK’s system for pricing drugs is to move from one based on controlling profits to a value-based approach. The switch has implications for other countries in Europe.

The light and dark blues have found new competitive pursuit that doesn't involve rowing down The Thames, or fighting in the Twickenham mud -- innovation.

Free money does not appeal to the large number of businesses in the UK that fail to apply for R&D tax relief.

The first programme in a multinational scheme to generate vaccines needed in the developing world by guaranteeing a market in advance of their development has got under way.

The UK government has announced it is investing £8.7 million in an Airbus-led project to develop simulation software for aircraft design.

Finland’s universities are banding together to establish a national network for cooperation in life sciences, Biocenter Finland.

A battle over the future of scientific publishing is shaping up in Brussels, as leading publishers tell the Commission to butt out