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.
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.
Just over half of Europe’s scientifically qualified work force is female, but fewer than one in three of Europe’s professional scientists and technologists are women...
A transatlantic collaboration that will systematically uncover the function of human genes and make the findings public got under way earlier this month.
US institutions are dominant in a survey of bio tech transfer published by the Miliken Foundation covering publications, patenting and tech transfer outcomes.
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