National Rectors’ Conferences have been reporting on the situation facing their universities in the current economic climate. The results have been mixed.
The European Commission will not raise objections under EC Treaty state aid rules to the support that France plans to give its Solar Nano Crystal programme.
The Steinbeis-Transfer-Institute for Intellectual Property Management has developed a set of indicators of the commercial viability of collaborative life-science projects.
The EU is funding a one year programme, Nanomed, to stake out the potential applications of nanomedicine and inform the investments it makes through FP7.
Putting public money into VC seed funds has yielded a large crop of cash-hungry UK start-ups. But with funding proving hard to find, who will feed them now?
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