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The EU’s top R&D administrator gives a preview of changes ahead for 2008 – including plans to increase the mobility of researchers.

Alexander von Gabain and his team laid the foundations of an enterprise that would rise to the top of the continent’s biotechnology pile – and rewrite the region’s rules for biotechnology start-ups.

The spin-out tag makes university start-ups look weak and vulnerable, says Philip Sharpe from QinetiQ, one of Europe’s largest technology commercialisation companies.

An academic–industry consortium is setting up a centre to support collaborative research and technology transfer between the UK and India.

President Ralph Eichler has plans for growth and change at the top continental university – with a due measure of Swiss caution.

Switzerland has announced plans to invest an unprecedented CHF400 million in order to become a world leader in systems biology.

The heavyweights of UK health research are joining forces to found a £500 million Centre for Medical Research and Innovation in the heart of London.

Napier University in Edinburgh is launching the Biofuel Research Centre, the first of its kind in the UK, to find sustainable alternatives to energy based on fossil fuels.