An advisory board of technology visionaries and venture capital leaders from all over the world will work alongside 3i to encourage entrepreneurship in the companies it invests in.
The biotech industry needs to take a lesson from the film industry and develop investment vehicles that make it possible to pool intellectual property, says a US think tank.
The State of Victoria, Australia, population 5 million, wants to be in the top five for biotech by 2010 – and it’s building a synchrotron to help it get there.
José Manuel Barroso is hoping for unanimous support for a slimmed-down European Institute of Technology. But some diplomats think he might be disappointed.
"Some of the world's biggest energy companies" have gone into a huddle wiuth the Department of Trade and Industry in the UK to support the creation of a new institute "to accelerate the development of secure, reliable and cost-effective low-carbon energy technologies towards commercial deployment".
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