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BASF adds to its academic collaborations with financial backing from the local authorities.

A greener lifestyle is not inimical to economic growth, says the author of a new report on how green initiatives are triggers for innovation.

Bath University is looking for partners or investors to take forwards a protoype fuel-efficient runaround vehicle – part micro-car, part motorcycle.

A new high-speed electronic network is set to transform collaboration between 45 million researchers and students in Europe and China when it goes live later this year.

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

EBI Food Safety claims it is taking a quantum leap in the fight against bacteria with the establishment of the first west European facility for industrial-scale production of bacteriophages.

What's hot for for 2006? Spin-outs and carve-outs, says senior Atlas Venture partner Christopher Spray in an interview for Science|Business

A Danish biopharmaceutical company and the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, have set up the MicroRNA Research Consortium, with funding from the Danish Advanced Technology Foundation.

Some large wave and tidal projects are now coming to fruition, but they will need to secure a premium price for the electricity they generate.

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.

Inexpensive, fun applications can make a big splash in the consumer robotics market, but investors are waiting for a new 'killer app' before putting their money on the table.

Hailed as one of the most important recent discoveries in biology, RNA interference has seen patent applications rise 3,000 per cent between 2000 and 2003.

So far Italy has barely registered on the roster of biotech nations. Now that is set to change as the first biotechnology champions emerge and the country goes all out to attract inward investment.

Three new centres for systems biology are to be launched with funding of £27 million from the UK’s Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.

The Finnish developers of a virtual guitar are looking for investment to develop the technology and to bring it to public venues.

A spin-out from Oxford University is looking to attract the attention of equity investors and pharmaceutical companies by focusing on the discovery and development of small molecules to treat cancer

Researchers are taking cues from a century-old spray drying technology to see if it could be developed to make better products for the food and pharmaceutical industries. They are now looking for investors and partnership from industry players.

The inventors of an imaging system to improve diagnosis of coronary heart disease are looking at licensing the technology – or getting venture capital to create a spin-out.

A researcher at the Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam has developed instruments that could assist surgeons to perform keyhole surgery. The centre is now looking for investors and partnership or licensing agreements for the technology.