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Science is the route out of the first financial crisis of the new global age, says Britain’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Cambridge spin-out CamSemi hopes to prosper during the global economic storm by riding the green wave. Its trump card: a new way of converting mains current to DC.

Putting public money into VC seed funds has yielded a large crop of cash-hungry UK start-ups. But with funding proving hard to find, who will feed them now?

National Rectors’ Conferences have been reporting on the situation facing their universities in the current economic climate. The results have been mixed.

The European Commission will not raise objections under EC Treaty state aid rules to the support that France plans to give its Solar Nano Crystal programme.

The Steinbeis-Transfer-Institute for Intellectual Property Management has developed a set of indicators of the commercial viability of collaborative life-science projects.

The EU is funding a one year programme, Nanomed, to stake out the potential applications of nanomedicine and inform the investments it makes through FP7.

Janez Potočnik, European Commissioner for Science and Research, has met with the experts due to carry out the review of the European Research Council (ERC).