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The tightening financial scene presents fresh perils for start-ups. Experts gathered together by the a UK regional biotech initiative suggest some coping strategies, Nuala Moran discovers.

Turmoil in the financial markets is having a disproportionate impact on biotech – and coupled with extra caution from regulators, is threatening innovation.

Switzerland’s biotech sector enjoyed healthy growth in 2007, according to the latest annual report of the industry body, Swiss Biotech.

The accountancy firm Grant Thornton has joined forces with Oxford University’s Isis Enterprise to set up an IP acquisition support service for technology businesses.

Napier University in Edinburgh, Scotland, will work with a Chinese consortium to further the development of second-generation biofuel from waste products.

China has been ranked the most attractive destination for foreign direct investment in Ernst & Young’s fifth annual European attractiveness survey.