Scientists at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, have developed a new method to make package Left to right: Dr Hugh Potts, Ian Muirhead and Dr Declan Diver d food safer for consumers and more long-lived on the shelf by ...
Rock Spring Ventures has launched a unique £50m venture capital fund focusing on early-stage life science and health technology companies. Based in Scotland, the new fund has secured early commitments for more than half of its ...
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I’ve often thought there should be a Nobel prize for corporate finance. It would go to the broker or investment bank that managed to place the largest IPO under the most unpromising circumstances. If there were such an award, I think ...
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The deal is part of the Risk Sharing Finance Facility (RSFF) initiative run by the EIB and the European Commission to promote R&D in the European Union. The funds will be available from 2013 to 2014 as loans to finance the R&D in areas like ...
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Xylem Inc. has signed a $158 million (€120 million) financing agreement with the European Investment Bank to fund innovative and aspirational research and development (R&D) projects across Europe. The deal underscores the EIB’s ...
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The idea that broadband projects face a struggle to find finance is a myth, according to the director general of non-profit organisation FTTH Council Europe, Hartwig Tauber. "Because of the financial crisis, people say there is no money ...
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ISIS Innovation, the technology transfer company of the University of Oxford, is expanding Down Under with the appointment of Helen Ujvary as Australian representative for the Isis Enterprise consultancy business. Ujvary was previously ...
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Qatar First Investment Bank (QFIB) has sold its 71.3% stake in Emirates National Factory of Plastic Industries (ENPI Group), a producer of flexible and rigid plastic packaging solutions to Saudi Printing & Packaging (SPPC). The ...
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Vendor earnings, market research reports and the International CES in Las Vegas this week highlighted the hardware arena, which appears to be a tale of two sectors with very different fates: PCs and mobile devices. The PC market continues ...
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Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has agreed to acquire the Kopin Wireless compound semiconductor epiwafer manufacturing division of Kopin Corp of Taunton, MA, USA (including its leased manufacturing ...
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Investment bank Goldman Sachs on Monday cut its 2013 US natural gas price forecast to $3.75/MMBtu form $4.25/MMBtu, saying mild winter weather across the US has failed to put a serious dent in storage levels. The bank said higher levels ...
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The sharemarket had it biggest fall in five weeks yesterday, with financial, material and industrial stocks leading the decline as global equity markets lost momentum following strong gains last week after the resolution of the US ...
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Popular micro-blogging website Twitter could be valued at $11 billion if it goes public in 2014, according to a report by specialist financial researchers Greencrest Capital. This would suggest that the company has regained value that was ...
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In a report out this week Norwegian analysts at Arctic Securities suggest Chinese iron ore imports are set to spike.The news comes as iron ore inventories at Chinese ports stand at their lowest for more than two years. According to ...
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The next two weeks will be a "make-or-break" period for $4/Mcf natural gas prices this winter, and forecasts of warmer-than-normal weather across the eastern US during the period are pointing to "break," energy investment bank Tudor ...
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