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The Wellcome Trust is reaching outside the UK to fund translational research and derisk projects for future investors.

ACES winner Kee Square was spun out of the Politecnico di Milano with commercial ambitions for software that can help security services find their suspect.

ETH Zurich is celebrating a record year for spin-offs, creating 23 companies in 2008. Six companies were established in computer science and six in communication technologies and services; four in bio-technology/pharmaceuticals; four in electrical and electronics engineering; two in medical devices, and one in micro- and nanotechnology.

The Norwegian Government is weighing a Euro 300M rescue package for the biotech industry as part of a national financial rescue package it is due to announce by the end of January.