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Speed – and staying close to the customer – is the key to commercialising new materials for electronics. But you can’t do this in Europe, says Thomas Geelhaar, head of R&D at Merck Chemicals.

A record 156,000 patents were filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty in 2007, up 4.7 per cent over the previous year.

The UK biotech sector has fallen victim to the mayhem in the capital markets. After a year of falling share prices, five quoted companies have put up “for sale” signs.