This week in UK&I in brief: UK and India join forces for biotechnology research; Geoengineering needs thought, study finds; Pharmaceuticals dominate university patenting; Abandoned carbon capture cost £60m; UK to lead international heart stem-cell trials; Ireland launches maritime centre.
UK and India join forces for biotechnology research
The UK research councils have announced several collaborative projects with India. In one, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and the Indian Government Department of Biotechnology will fund a £10 million (€11.6m) call for sustainable bioenergy research to solve shared problems in the production and processing of plants and algae for bioenergy.