A new initiative to provide business leadership training for 20 senior managers from fast growing SMEs (Small and Medium Sized Enterprises) has just been launched by WMG, at the University of Warwick, in partnership with Santander.
Following Premier Li Keqiang's visit to the UK, the President of Imperial College London is leading a delegation to China to promote research, innovation and education ties between the two countries.
The uncertainty sparked by the US ruling that the BRCA1 and BRCA2 breast cancer genes are not patentable is holding back the development of diagnostics and therapies, says patent lawyer Adrian Tombling
The CEOs of Ablynx and uniQure, at a Science|Business event, tell their growth stories – and what Europe needs to do if there are to be more companies like theirs bringing new medicines to market
Pharmaceutical R&D functions at its best in small, agile and innovative SMEs. Replacing state subsidies and grant funding for research with start-up and development capital, would bring productivity improvements, says Mark Bloomfield, CEO of French biotech Polyplus Transfection
Winners of European Research Council Proof-of-Concept grants pitched their innovative ideas to investors and stakeholders at a Science|Business Innovation Board event last week.
Cambridge CMOS Sensors, an industry leader in the design and manufacture of environmental sensors, developer of the world’s smallest and lowest power gas sensors for use in applications such as smartphones and wearable devices, has completed a new round of funding.
Horizon 2020 is not only the EU’s biggest, broadest and most ambitious R&D initiative ever, it is the first to prioritise innovation. Now, company culture must respond, boosting the quality, pace and scale of innovation, says Joachim von Heimburg
Poland must break down the silos between academics and industry, to build the trust and infrastructures needed to underpin multilateral collaborations, and enable Polish medical researchers to capitalise on pharma’s thirst for external innovation
Lithuania has set a new research and innovation course - and it’s time to lift anchor, Dainius Pavalkis, Minister for Education and Science tells Science|Business
Spin-outs from four German and two UK universities feature among the nine finalists in the 2014 ACES Awards, along with universities from Denmark, Ireland and Switzerland.
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