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Using iBio's plant-based vaccine manufacturing platform and GE Healthcare's technological experience in biopharmaceutical manufacturing, the two companies on Thursday announced they will commercialize plant-based technologies for the manufacture of biopharmaceuticals and vaccines. The iBioLaunch platform is a gene expression technology that induces plants to rapidly produce high levels of proteins such as vaccines, in a process which can be scaled-up in low cost, controlled-growth facilities....More

Microsoft (IW 500/15) has launched an investment fund looking to give startups the cash to originate "game-changing ideas" in the tech sector. The company announced Thursday that its Bing Fund would be "an angel fund with an incubator program, founded by entrepreneurs... and backed by the experience, expertise, and resources of Microsoft."...More

BMW AG and Toyota Motor Corp. have agreed to extend their recently established collaboration and work together on new technologies such as fuel cells. At a joint news conference in BMW's home city of Munich, BMW CEO Norbert Reithofer and Toyota President Akio Toyoda announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding "aimed at long-term strategic collaboration in four fields."...More

Device opens up prospects for improving airport security, military surveillance and even online sports coverage....More

New battery technology would 'reduce or eliminate the need for heating or cooling systems, which is expected to create sizeable new opportunities' for automotive batteries, company says....More

The strategic working group, which also includes H.J. Heinz Co. and Nike Inc., seeks to 'evolve today's material that is partially made from plants to a solution made entirely from plants.'...More

KPMG survey indicates more R&D investment by manufacturers in the next two years as they try to boost innovation....More

SAES Getters' open innovation helps company compete....More

The company's success in leveraging innovation to compete in a rapidly changing industry proves that even tectonic shifts in customer preferences don't have to be a corporate death knell....More

SpaceX has launched a spacecraft with the goal of hooking up with the International Space Station....More

The infinite possibilities are crystal clear....More

The manufacturer of natural personal-care products views food, biomimicry and nature's defense as its "pillars" of innovation....More