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The accountancy firm Grant Thornton has joined forces with Oxford University’s Isis Enterprise to set up an IP acquisition support service for technology businesses.

Napier University in Edinburgh, Scotland, will work with a Chinese consortium to further the development of second-generation biofuel from waste products.

Luxembourg is to invest €140 million over five years in a bid to become a centre of excellence in molecular medicine, partnering with three leading US institutions to help achieve the aim.

ICAMS, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Advanced Materials Simulation established with a €24 million contribution from leading German firms, has been officially opened by the Ruhr University.

Brussels is abuzz with speculation that Europe’s fragmented, costly and complex patent regime is about to reform – aided by advances in machine translation. But support is not unanimous.

The first pan-European awards programme to recognise academic entrepreneurs was launched yesterday at INSEAD’s Europe campus, Fontainebleau, by the Science|Business Innovation Board.

Why does Germany have such an under developed venture capital market? Science|Business speaks to Rolf Dienst, one of the country’s most prominent VCs.

Four of the UK’s Research Councils have come together to invest £890,000 in new projects designed to rapidly build the expertise and capacity in the emerging field of synthetic biology.