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The UK's National Collection of Yeast Cultures is looking for partners to help it to delve into research on using yeast to contribute to cutting edge science such as fingerprint DNA identification or drug delivery systems

AB Volvo has hired Jan-Eric Sundgren, the president of Chalmers University of Technology, to become a member of its executive committee, overseeing the Swedish carmaker's ties with public authorities and academia.

IP2IPO Group, which specialises in commercialising university technology, has made an exclusive 25-year deal with the University of Bristol to form spin-out companies from the university. Analysts greeted the deal as a boost for the company.

Microsoft is to open more research centres in Europe, in a move to step up its research collaboration and boost students' interest in the technology field.

"Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success." Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931).

A new Munich-based company that says its patented technologies can reduce household water consumption by 90 per cent on average is looking for more investment.

On the glut of patenting, BASF's rising research budget, football fever in the Commons, and other insights into R&D management

Some strange new ways of raising money are starting to emerge - but would-be borrowers and lenders are still making sense of them.

Better, brighter, faster – that's where photonic lasers are trying to take us. A lay guide to the technology.

A politician's gaffe highlights the gender gap in science. Political action, not talk, is what's needed to close it.

A new proposal from the European Investment Fund seeks to accelerate the success of European technology transfer projects. A noble idea, says Mary Lisbeth D'Amico in her fortnightly column, but no one has yet stepped up to foot the bill.

OrthoMimetics, the first technology spin-out from the Cambridge-MIT Institute, Cambridge, UK, has begun its search for initial funding.

A British start-up is betting it has a better way for television networks to watch their viewers watching them.

We interview Andrew Newland, head of a venture capital consultancy with a long-term strategy of working with scientists and inventors.

The pace of forming academic spin-out companies picked up in the US in 2004 after a two-year slump, according to a survey released today.

Not all nanotechnology is hype. Carbon nanotubes are already inside a product near you.

Britain's privatised defence lab ties up with 7 universities, in a strategy to do more with fewer partners.