All News

Everyone’s strapped for cash – except pharma. But the latest spending spree is no more of a fix for expiring patents than botox is for ageing skin, writes Nuala Moran.

When Eleanor Taylor joined Scottish Enterprise in 1999, she set about turning an £11 million fund into the £79 million Proof of Concept funding and support programme that it is today.

The financial crisis has quashed hopes of an increase in the Framework Programme 7 budget. Now the focus is on making it work better.

An internet video portal on the R&D Excellence Initiative has been launched by the German Research Foundation to give a flavour of its top-level research.

The 850 UK firms making the largest investment R&D in 2007 grew their R&D by 6 per cent to £21.6 billion in the last year, according to the UK government's 18th annual R&D scoreboard.

The Norwegian government has responded to lobbying from its biotech sector with a package to help the industry, and UK biotech is asking for similar support.