Corporate incubators bridge the seed funding gap, but apart from pocket money what can start-ups learn from their foster parents?

A Swedish report into levels of research funding for universities since the mid 1990s shows resources increased up to 2002 and then stagnated.

Scotland launched the latest version of its strategy to become one of world’s top locations for life sciences by 2020, as the hopes vested in two of its leading research companies Stem Cell Sciences and Ardana Biosciences, turned to dust.

The UK Medical Research Council has appointed Dave Tapolczay as head of its technology transfer company, MRC Technology.