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The UK's National Collection of Yeast Cultures is looking for partners to help it to delve into research on using yeast to contribute to cutting edge science such as fingerprint DNA identification or drug delivery systems

Two New Year's resolutions for the governments around the world that have managed to gum up the economic machinery behind technological development.

A new Swedish company backed by government and business angels aims to create an entire funding ecosystem for young companies until they become ready for venture capital.

IP2IPO Group, which specialises in commercialising university technology, has made an exclusive 25-year deal with the University of Bristol to form spin-out companies from the university. Analysts greeted the deal as a boost for the company.

A British pharmaceutical distributor, Beckpharma Ltd., said it licensed two Cuban healthcare products to sell in Europe as part of a broader effort for trade links.

Better, brighter, faster – that's where photonic lasers are trying to take us. A lay guide to the technology.

With licensing and collaboration now the lifeblood of the drug industry, the annual BIO-Europe get-together was focused on partnering. Nuala Moran was there.

A British start-up is betting it has a better way for television networks to watch their viewers watching them.

"Scientific work … must be done for itself, for the beauty of science." Marie Curie, chemist & physicist (1867 - 1934)

On the glut of patenting, BASF's rising research budget, football fever in the Commons, and other insights into R&D management

New regulations on the registration and testing of chemicals could have some problematic knock-on effects on European R&D – but they could also bring some lucrative work the way of contract research organisations.

Some strange new ways of raising money are starting to emerge - but would-be borrowers and lenders are still making sense of them.