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As governments direct stimulus packages towards science and research, don’t forget the current crop of spin-outs who face extinction in a frozen capital market, writes Nuala Moran.

As governments plough in $3 trillion to stimulate growth, 52 major companies and leading climate change experts argue for policies to promote low carbon technology.

Bring on the science superstars: In an age when schoolchildren are obsessed with celebrity, they need to see science creates heroes too, writes Dave Madden.

Beyond its blockbuster drugs Genentech has a commodity rare in a large company – an entrepreneurial culture. Can Roche preserve this?

When new European Commissioners are chosen later this year, they should take the opportunity to create a Vice President for Innovation, says Richard L. Hudson.

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

Protectionist policies will at best slow down the yearned-for quick recovery, says Sami Mahroum. At worst they could destroy the fabric of innovation.

The bad news is the world is warming faster than forecast. The good: the US is now ready to engage and Clean Tech is top of the agenda, writes Nuala Moran.

Cynics say it merely wants to curry favour with the European Union, but Intel’s revamp of its labs is a convincing model for corporate engagement in R&D, writes Nuala Moran.

Everyone’s strapped for cash – except pharma. But the latest spending spree is no more of a fix for expiring patents than botox is for ageing skin, writes Nuala Moran.