Debbie Hart, president of BioNJ, said the state hasn’t seen any biotech companies close as a result of the difficult economy, but there have been job losses and some executives have decided to shelve work on new cancer medicines, vaccines and treatments for Alzheimer’s disease.

Nationally, a recent study found, Indian immigrant business owners average 60% more income than U.S. business owners generally, and earn more than entrepreneurs from any other immigrant group. In Wisconsin, payroll at Indian-owned firms, compared with the number of Indians who live here, far exceeds that of any other Asian ethnic group, and of Hispanic and black-owned businesses

From biofuels to pharmaceuticals, Sacramento-area inventors have created scores of promising scientific breakthroughs, many of them in the well-funded laboratories of UC Davis. Turning those inventions into jobs and wealth is hard, however. Starting a high-tech company in Sacramento means overcoming the region's risk-averse mind-set, a scarcity of big-money investors and the allure of the Bay Area's tech-friendly landscape.

The scientist at the centre of the “climategate” email scandal has revealed that he was so traumatised by the global backlash against him that he contemplated suicide.

Could it be that blogs have become online fodder for the — gasp! — more mature reader? A new study has found that young people are losing interest in long-form blogging, as their communication habits have become increasingly brief and mobile.

A New York investment bank and a Washington think tank chose Silicon Valley to kick off their campaign for "The Next American Economy" last week.

Private equity firms are again being threatened with higher taxes, as a long-running debate over how to classify their profits again becomes a focus for governments desperate for cash. But while high-profile buyout firms may seem an easy target, the question is a controversial one.

The state's three largest universities are spending more than $800 million dollars on life sciences research that is creating jobs in Michigan, the director of the University Research Corridor said Friday.

State lawmakers want to dangle a legislative carrot to lure investment to Georgia technology startups and generate knowledge-based jobs. Proposed legislation would provide tax credits to motivate early-stage investors in Georgia businesses and potentially create up to 700 jobs annually.

Haven't had much time to go through the various recent cleantech IPO filings, and so haven't talked about them much. Also just generally hoping they do well, for the sake of the overall industry. But in a meeting today someone put up some stats that were pretty sobering.

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and Senate President Therese Murray plan to propose this week several ways to improve the Bay State’s business climate in steering the region out of its economic malaise. Patrick said he will unveil a new $50 million tax credit for small business. Murray said she will seek to streamline more than 30 agencies that promote economic development

Here's a look at three technologies that California residents are using to cut their energy bills and turn their homes into clean mini-power plants

Conservatives propose an initiative that would delay curbs on greenhouse gas emissions until the state's unemployment rate drops to 5.5%, a level not seen since 2007.

Do patents help or hinder innovation? Instinctively, they would seem a blessing, especially for backroom tinkerers. For the inventor, that may be a reasonable trade-off. For society, however, the loss of competition through the granting sole rights to an individual or organisation is justified only if it stimulates the economy and delivers goods that change people’s lives for the better.