A long-time Cinderella, the biotechnology sector in Italy now has a turnover of more than 10 billion euros. It may now be poised to make its mark internationally.
Four of the UK’s Research Councils have come together to invest £890,000 in new projects designed to rapidly build the expertise and capacity in the emerging field of synthetic biology.
On current growth rates China will overtake the US to become the world’s largest patent filing jurisdiction by 2012, according to market analysts Evalueserve.
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