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Building on its heritage as a former technology transfer office, Imperial Innovations is now applying its £160M cash mountain to redraw the landscape for academic spin-outs

MEPs want to establish conditions where anyone can innovate. But evidence suggests such a protected environment won’t promote entrepreneurialism

In part two of a look at Europe’s cleantech prospects Joerg Sperling, Partner at the European cleantech investment fund WHEB Partners and president of the Tech Tour Cleantech Summit 2011, gives his pick of the best places to invest

Joerg Sperling, Partner at the European cleantech investment fund WHEB Partners and president of the Tech Tour Cleantech Summit 2011, gives his perspective on prospects for the sector for 2011

The UK’s science-based businesses will find much to welcome in the 2011 budget. But there are still many challenges ahead if the country is to unlock the vast potential of small and early-stage technology companies, says Jonathan Ware of the consultancy PLMR

A year after Science|Business highlighted the hurdles that stand in the way of deploying personalised medicine there has been progress, even if some barriers remain in place

As the second tranche of projects in the €2 billion Innovative Medicines Initiative was announced this week, a quick stock take of progress to date hints at what this wide-ranging collaboration could deliver

The old principles of intellectual property regulation are strained in the Age of the Internet. Reform is needed, says Francis Gurry, Director General, World Intellectual Property Organization

Entrepreneurs, investors and industry leaders attending the third annual Science|Business Academic Enterprise Awards (ACES) conference earlier this month called on European politicians and universities to do more to support entrepreneurship on campus and help seed a new generation of world-class technology companies.

University technology transfer and commercialisation is a delicate balancing act, calling for scale and a global outlook on one hand, and intimate knowledge and continuous contact on the other, says Keith Robson, Chair of SETsquared.