Dr Denise Goldman, on why promising new treatments fall into a 'valley of death' and how Action on Hearing Loss initiatives - from funding translational research to engaging with industry by providing free consultancy and market intelligence reports, are working to overcome it.
November 11, 2011 by martinturner
On Monday I attended a very interesting talk by Tim Harford at the Policy Exchange in Westminster. Tim is an economist, he writes for the Financial Times and also has several best sellers in which he boils economics down to its basics. His talk, called Innovating for growth, was about how to stimulate technological innovation,… [Read more…]
November 8, 2011 by martinturner
An invention is only patentable if it is believed to be useful in any industry. However, a new judgment by the UK’s Supreme Court has ruled that patents need only contain “plausible” suggestions of uses for the new technology. This will make it easier to patent the products of research in the life sciences and… [Read more…]
October 28, 2011 by martinturner
A new report published by BIS comparing the UK against other research-intensive nations highlights the international strength of the UK research community but also warns that it is under threat from underfunding and a decreasing share of the international scientific workforce. The report includes some pretty interesting statistics about research in the UK, comparing what… [Read more…]
May 17, 2012 by saraellis
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