Separately, Intel and Clearwire, which is majority-owned by phone operator Sprint Nextel, had been victims of an insider trading trial by hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a group of the developed countries, in a report Regions and Innovation Policy said the richest 4% of regions accounted for one-third of all OECD growth over the 1995-2005 period.

Switzerland-based non-profit organisation World Economic Forum in its Global Entrepreneurship and Successful Growth Strategies of Early-Stage Companies report found the top 5% of the 380,000 companies contribute 72% of total revenue and 67% of total jobs.

The intellectual property bank is to be set up with NT$500m ($17m) from venture capital firms and local equipment companies HTC, Acer and Asustek Computer under the supervision of Taiwan's semi-official Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI).

World Economic Forum and consultancy firm Oliver Wyman's report finds long-term institutional investing to shrink and will affect company strategy.

Press reports on trial of Raj Rajaratnam, founder of Galleon Group.

Requests for the Corporate Venturing Scheme (CVS) tax break to be brought back in the UK.

Barack Obama will have to decide after Huawei declined to sell on 3Leaf assets as part of a recommendation by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.

Academic behind part of European Union's innovation policy fears continent will miss corporate venturing's input.