France’s newly autonomous universities are setting out to create foundations on the model of Harvard and Yale – and getting caught up in France’s bureaucratic jungle.
Universities should think carefully when deciding whether to set up TTOs as separate companies or keep them in house, says Tom Hockaday from Isis Innovation.
VTT of Finland is leading a pan-European project with European research institutes and companies to produce a second generation of biofuels from lignocellulose.
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