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Staying in the loop

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.

Lab Notes

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

The big test

New regulations on the registration and testing of chemicals could have some problematic knock-on effects on European R&D – but they could also bring some lucrative work the way of contract research organisations.

Investing: Anyone got €500 million?

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.

Tell-tale television

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

The view from Angle

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

An end to France's biotech drought?

It has been six years since a French biotech company made a stock market debut – and now two, BioAlliance and ExonHit, are doing so. Is the European market reawakening?

The beauty of it

"Scientific work … must be done for itself, for the beauty of science." Marie Curie, chemist & physicist (1867 - 1934)