i2india this week oversees the opening of Technovate-India, an incubator it will run with its parent Imperial Innovations, the tech transfer arm of Imperial College London.

The National University of Ireland Galway and the University of Limerick have agreed to form a joint Translational Research Institute with the Georgia Institute of Technology.

A new fund was launched by Oxford University this week to support proof of concept and prototyping work.

An international public-private consortium, set up to build the most detailed map of human genetic variation to date, has announced the completion of three pilot projects.