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Technology transfer is a sensitive and complex process. Changing one factor won’t provide the magic bullet, says Anna S. Nilsson, Science and Technology Attaché at the Swedish Embassy in Washington DC.

Orla Protein Technologies, a spin-out from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, is looking to raise £3 million in a series A funding round for the next stage of its development.

European food manufacturers are being offered access to a new software tool that takes the trial and error out of devising and developing convenience food recipes,.

TeGenero, the company behind the drug trial fiasco that put six healthy volunteers into intensive care, has announced it is filing for insolvency.

Finland wants to use its six months presiding over the EU to change innovation policy. It picks up the gauntlet at a meeting of competition ministers next week.

As the European Commission ponders the single European patent, the European Patent Office is under attack from national patent offices that want some of its functions.

Germany's academic spin-outs are not such a force for developing the economy after all, according to an in depth study of 20 of their number.

Swedish spin-out Denator Biotechnology is raising money to fund development of its technology that analyses protein samples without adulterating them with added reagents.

German company Q-Cells AG has taken a stake in Swiss university spin-off VHF Technologies, which makes flexible plastic films for solar panels.

Innovation will be a priority for the EU over the next six months

Obesity has been promoted from lifestyle issue to global health problem. But can fatness be cured? A new drug may be a turning point.

Antenova of Cambridge, UK, a developer of smart antenna for accessing mobile location-based services, said is targeting a flotation on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange in 2007.

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

Researchers at Northumbria University, UK, have a developed a safe, cheap clinical waste disposal system suitable for hospitals in developing countries, and are looking for backing from investors to take the idea forward.

The claim that European public opinion contributes to the technology gap between the US and Europe is invalid, according to the latest Eurobarometer survey.