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Johnson & Johnson's Corporate Office of Science & Technology (COSAT) has agreed to fund a research programme on hearing loss conduced by University College London's (UCL) Ear Institute under a partnership between the pharmaceutical giant and RNID, a non-profit organisation for the hearing impaired in the UK.

Lots of buzz preceded what was billed as the world's first live, multi-lot technology patent auction on April 6, but reality failed to meet expectations for many of the inventors who put up 400-plus patents for sale.

A review of the literature draws some interesting conclusions on the performance of venture capital investors.

After finding nothing wrong with the specifics of the preclinical data, the product, or how the trial was conducted, the UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency has ordered an investigation to changes in clinical trials procedures.

Israeli researchers have invented software to “freeze” an image of the human heart in order to facilitate catheter navigation. They are now looking for either an investment or a licensing deal for the technology.

An early pioneer of innovation tries again to spin out its own ideas.

A spin-out from Helsinki University of Technology is looking for further funding and possible partnerships to jointly develop and commercialise its thin flexible paper battery technology.

The UK's Department of Trade and Industry has £80 milion to give away. Is your technology in their sights?

Three small business with a collective staff of less than 60 get to share €600,000 of EU cash

Why not take a trip to Brighton to network with some spin-out agents? We'll be there.

The DTI in the UK sent a Global Watch Mission team to California last year to look at biosensors and biosensing "major global industries, with the worldwide total annual sales of medical biosensors exceeding £2.8 billion in 2003". The team has just reported back.

The Scottish Funding Council has put up £870,000 in an initiative to provide a single point of access for matching the know-how within the country's 20 universities and research institutions with the needs of small- and medium-sized enterprises.

For 30 years, the European Commission has been trying to fix the broken patent process, but keeps running afoul of entrenched intestests. Is it any wonder that European countries keep dropping in the world patent leagues?

The UK budget last week set out measures to extract more value, improve quality and increase innovation from the billions the government spends on science. Nuala Moran looks into the small print.

Endorsed - if lukewarmly - by Europe's leaders, the plan for a "European Institute of Technology", now goes to the back rooms in Brussels for more cooking.