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High tech needs patent reform

Technology / Business

created Apr 07, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

It isn't often that you see heavyweights in the tech world duking it out in a high-stakes match, with Congress as the referee. It's happening today over proposed reforms in patent law, which pits the software and information ...





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Study lauds India's biotech industry

Biology /

created Apr 10, 2007 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A Canadian study suggests India's biotech firms are becoming major global players, increasingly able to produce drugs and vaccines at competitive costs.


GEN highlights emerging biotechnology clusters

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Although Boston, San Francisco, San Diego, and Cambridge (U.K.) are always near the top of most biotechnology cluster lists, other areas around the world are starting to pop up on the life science radar screen, reports Genetic ...


How Chinese firms benefit from the diversity of foreign direct investment

Other Sciences / Economics

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New research from Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Business shows that the diversity of foreign invested firms' national origin helps businesses in China benefit from foreign direct investment (FDI).


Uncertain climate regulations -- why corporations still invest

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Firms and corporations frequently need to take investment decisions without knowing if future regulation will support or threaten their investment. This is especially true in energy intensive industries that face high uncertainty ...


Your bioweapon is in the mail

Other Sciences /

created Nov 10, 2005 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

A New Scientist magazine study suggests it would not be difficult for a terrorist to obtain genes from the smallpox virus or a similarly vicious pathogen.


Blue rose

Blue roses to debut in Japan

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 1

Which colour would you like your roses? Red, white, yellow... or perhaps blue?


Reversing brain drain

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 2

A battered U.S. economy has sent many of the country's leading minds packing for "greener" shores. America is losing thousands of top scientists, academics and biotech executives to cities like Singapore, which offer more ...


Study: Credit crisis, debt load a double whammy for investment

Other Sciences / Economics

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Firms with heavy long-term debt that came due amid the nation's recent credit crisis slashed investment more than three times as much as companies whose paybacks ducked the meltdown, a new University of Illinois study found.


Hwang Woo-Suk was fired from Seoul National University for fraud

S.Korea scientist wins dog cloning court battle

Biology / Biotechnology

created Sep 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Disgraced South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-Suk has won a copyright battle over dog-cloning techniques his colleagues said Saturday.


Financial restructuring in fresh-start chapter 11 reorganizations

Other Sciences / Economics

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The effectiveness of the existing bankruptcy code has long been a source of vigorous debate. More and more lately, high-profile firms like General Motors, Enron, and K-Mart are seeking protection from creditors through Chapter ...



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