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It's better to have fewer, stronger, spin-offs than shoals of tiddlers, as Marina Murphy discovers.

The UK government has announced the formation of two further Enterprise Capital Funds, one more than it intended to set up in the first phase of the programme.

Battery capacity has been blamed for holding back innovation in many fields, from renewable energy to mobiles. Now nanotech is providing the answer.

The EU's attempt to reduce the amount of animal testing became more concrete last week with the publication of an action programme.

Mista Ltd is looking for funding and publishers for its software, which allows users to create virtual guided tours.

The Cambridge-MIT Institute has spun out its Communications Research Network project as a company to step up the pace of innovation in communications.

Funds should start flowing at the start of 2007 in the €50 billion Framework Programme 7 after the European Parliament approved the budget.

York University's Centre for Novel Agricultural Products has won a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to complete research into an antimalarial plant.

Carlos Moreira, co-founder and chairman of Swiss data-encryption firm WISekey, talks to Science|Business editor Richard L. Hudson on the travails of entrepreneurship.

With the end of easy oil, French oil services giant Schlumberger Clamart Technology Centre is transforming its research and development activities.

Novartis’s move to take over UK biotech NeuTec Pharma at a large premium highlights how the so-called “superbugs” have reinvigorated pharma’s interest in antibiotics.

Civo BioScreening is looking for strategic partnerships to help it take forward its novel polymer screening technology.

Innate Pharma SA has applied for an initial public offering and listing on the Euronext in Paris, to raise funds to expand its pipeline of oncology therapeutics.

Economic disparity across Europe's regions can be linked directly to investment in research and development and adoption of information technologies, says an official report.