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Steelmaker Arcelor, carmaker Daimler-Benz and some 50 companies are joining an effort by the French National Center for Scientific Research to form an education and research network to scout new metallic materials for industrial use.

Sigma-Aldrich, a US-based Nasdaq-listed life science company, has agreed to license a gene delivery technology from Oxford BioMedica and will pay $5 million for a stake in the spin out from Oxford University.

Technology from one of France’s Grandes Écoles is going towards developing an easy-to-program home robot – with a common touch

Energy: The Manchester “bobber” is using the power of ocean waves to find a lower-cost route to alternative energy.

Partnerships: An EU project aims to design road-hardened microchips in a fast-changing market.

Take care: not all spin-outs end in fame and glory. The path from academia to industry is strewn with pitfalls…

Imperial College London's technology commercialisation company is betting on a spin-out company, deltaDOT, to speed detection and decrease costs of finding new proteins for drug discovery.

A new life-science fund said it raised €240.3 million – and promptly announced its first two investments.

Avidex is teaming up with diabetes specialists at King’s College London to work on a new approach to treating the Type I form of the disease.

Nemerix, a semiconductor company spun out from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, has closed a €25 million series B financing round.