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A new high-accuracy low-cost infusion pump has attracted £250,000 funding from The Capital Fund, a £50 million venture capital fund that invests in fast-growth companies in Greater London.

The Nowgen Centre, a new purpose-built facility for the North West Genetics Knowledge Park, has opened in Manchester, UK.

The review of intellectual property rights in the UK have created some strange allies.

Searching for the best tax incentives in European R&D? Then look no further than the Science|Business guide to this popular - though by no means universal - stimulant.

Spend more on basic research - that's one of the prescriptions for Europe offered by Jim Goodnight, founder and CEO of SAS, one of the world's largest privately held software companies.

Philips has announced the first fruit of its deal with the venture capital firm New Venture Partners to spin out companies based on research carried out in Philips’ corporate research laboratories.

A new journal might be worth watching, if you don't mind tearing down barriers between disciplines.

The European Union's plan to transform Europe's drug discovery industry borrows some of its style from the US - but not everything.

Europe needs more "angel" investors to finance its start-ups. A Prague conference highlights why it isn't getting them.

Things have changed in intellectual property, the biotech industry's big annual get-together in the US has been hearing from India, Malaysia and others.

Innovation has its phases. So does procurement. The challenge is to synchronise them.

While the telecommunications industry retrenches, the dominant French operator expands its research budget and seeks new lab partners. Why?

The European University Association presents a vision for universities, with a few pointers to issues in knowledge transfer.

There is more to smart government spending than just getting value for money. How about supporting innovation too?

An early pioneer of innovation tries again to spin out its own ideas.

The UK's Department of Trade and Industry has £80 milion to give away. Is your technology in their sights?

Why not take a trip to Brighton to network with some spin-out agents? We'll be there.

A Chicago merchant bank will take a new twist on selling intellectual property next week when it holds a live auction to sell 400-plus patents from some of the most valued technology innovators in the world. Lori Valigra looks at the list.

The Scottish Funding Council has put up £870,000 in an initiative to provide a single point of access for matching the know-how within the country's 20 universities and research institutions with the needs of small- and medium-sized enterprises.

The UK budget last week set out measures to extract more value, improve quality and increase innovation from the billions the government spends on science. Nuala Moran looks into the small print.