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A review of the literature draws some interesting conclusions on the performance of venture capital investors.

A spin-out from Helsinki University of Technology is looking for further funding and possible partnerships to jointly develop and commercialise its thin flexible paper battery technology.

An early pioneer of innovation tries again to spin out its own ideas.

The UK's Department of Trade and Industry has £80 milion to give away. Is your technology in their sights?

Three small business with a collective staff of less than 60 get to share €600,000 of EU cash

The DTI in the UK sent a Global Watch Mission team to California last year to look at biosensors and biosensing "major global industries, with the worldwide total annual sales of medical biosensors exceeding £2.8 billion in 2003". The team has just reported back.

Why not take a trip to Brighton to network with some spin-out agents? We'll be there.

Acrongenomics Inc., a Swiss life science venture company and Molecular Vision Ltd., a spin-out from the Imperial College London, said they have signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly develop diagnostic devices for diabetes, drug abuse, STDs and cardiovascular diseases.

In a funk after years of stagnation and high unemployment, Germany is looking to an unlikely alliance between football and R&D to kick start the economy.

An Israeli academic has developed a virtual reality device to help people with neurodegenerative diseases to improve their walking. He is now seeking funding of about $500,000 to commercialise it and looking for manufacturing partner.