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Top Stories

How to make a Silicon Valley in Europe

Too many initiatives in the European Union are blunted by lack of clarity. That can’t happen with cluster policy, says the Science|Business Innovation Board. more...

Sophia Antipolis: high-tech culture out of a high-tech desert

Part 2 of our series on clusters: France’s leading high-tech cluster is now looking to internal momentum for growth. more...

Enterprise recognised at ACES event

Four university researchers who cast off the cosy embrace of academe at a fringe meeting at the ESOF conference in Barcelona this week. more...

Bringing down the barriers to technology transfer

The cultural divide between academe and industry remains a stubborn obstacle to effective collaboration. How can this divide be navigated? more...

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News Highlights

Humboldt secures precedent-setting €50M tech transfer fund

Humboldt-Universitat has set a new standard for technology commercialisation in Germany with a €50 million fund to invest in spin-outs. more...

Influence of universities in UK knowledge economy growing, says survey

Higher education institutions are becoming increasingly influential in the UK knowledge economy according to the latest survey for the academic year 2006-2007. more...

Israeli VC investments slow after record start to the year

In the second quarter of 2008, 115 Israeli high-tech companies raised 17 per cent less than in the same period last year. more...

White paper looks to future of Germany’s Excellence Project

The German Research Foundation DFG and the German Science Council have outlined their views on the further development of the Excellence Initiative. more...

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Business Leads

Geneva: Techniques for mapping DNA bound proteins

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Oxford: Bargaining software system to assess the state housing market

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UK opens new ethical tissue bank

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Aberdeen University to showcase its emerging technologies

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UK SMEs offered free registration to public sector contracts database

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New target uncovered for antimalarial drugs

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Heriot-Watt: Probiotics to improve fish health and appetite

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Oxford: Chemical method for protein modification

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Scottish Enterprise Proof of Concept Programme offers £1.51M to fund 6 projects

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Fraunhofer IPA: New generation of household robots

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Surrey: Controlled growth of 80-nanometre C60 crystals

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Early-Stage Deals

Cambridge licence to lead to first testing service for macular degeneration

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Denmark’s Fluxome Sciences completes €13M funding round

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Oxford and Emergent Biosolutions form TB vaccine consortium

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King’s spin-out seals $232M deal for Parkinson’s drug

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Swedish biotech forms spin-off with Uppsala University

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Immune specialist gets loan for hepatitis C trials

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Institut Pasteur spin-out in €1.5 M round

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Dexela completes £2.6M funding round

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Sweden and US join forces on hybrid car project

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Vienna University of Technology and spin-off collaborate on next-generation mobile telephony

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BASF and Transinsight collaborate on alternatives to animal testing

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Amsterdam Molecular Therapeutics in US gene therapy tie-up

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SuppreMol closes €15.7M financing round

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Network News

Ireland attracts semiconductor R&D lab

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Sir Keith O'Nions appointed Director of new security research institute at Imperial College

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Danish chemicals company joins Dutch nanoconsortium

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Imperial to lead £4.2M project to tackle healthcare-associated infections

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