The drug development start-up TPP Global Development has agreed its first deal, in which it will collaborate with Edinburgh University to carry out preclinical development.

Edinburgh University has announced that it spun out 40 new firms last year, the most ever generated by a Scottish university in a single year.

A scheme run for the past 15 years to give life science PhD students more commercial awareness has been successful, says an independent review.

Times may be hard, but it remains possible to be innovative, Henry Chesbrough, the father of Open Innovation and ESADE Visiting Professor, tells Science|Business.