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Unlike old generals, drug-patent wars not only do not die but do not even fade away. As reported by Reuters and other major media, on Monday, August 7, hundreds of Thais living with HIV/AIDS demonstrated in front of the Bangkok offices of drug maker GlaxoSmithKline to protest a patent application for its key anti-retroviral drug, Combid.

The nuclear industry really is interested in playing a role in the hydrogen economy, and meets regularly to review progress.

The UK's Small Business Investment Taskforce has looked into funding for high-tech businesses.

Would you trust a web search to deliver the evidence needed to change the law? That's an accusation made against the EU.

Is the UK really neglecting a clean source of energy? Before throwing money into fuel cells, potential investors might like to ask where the energy comes from.

The Department of Trade and Industry has set out a new set of priorities for its investment in R&D. The usual mixed bag, with a nod towards climate change.

Blue biotech is getting into its stride, as the tools of genomics and high throughput screening are applied to unlock the chemical diversity of the oceans.

How will Imperial College London's newly floated tech-transfer affiliate invest its stock-market millions? After raising the money, now comes the fun part: spending it.

It is a hard life being an electronics business, they just keep changing the science under you. This time around we have a combination of electronics and spin – and that has nothing to do with PR.

An interesting set of deals bring together major companies and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council in a new model for academic/industry collaboration.

Biotech start-ups in France and elsewhere in Europe make a unique and important contribution to healthcare. They merit special treatment to help them grow.

Merlin Biosciences has been under the cloud of an investigation by the UK's Serious Fraud Office. Now founder Chris Evans says the firm is planning new investments.

The UK government said it will contribute £16 million to a £32 million programme aimed at ensuring the safe operation of unmanned aviation vehicles (UAV) in civil airspace.

The GREAT Consortium has been set up to design a mass market receiver for Galileo, Europe's new global satellite navigation system that is due to come into operation in 2012.

The European Commission adopted new rules for investing public money in small private companies that it says will make it easier for start-ups to raise risk capital.