You've run your experiments, got your results, and you've been mentally spending -- or at least licensing -- the proceeds of your bulging IP portfolio. But that may have been the easy part, writes Renate Krelle. Before you go any further, here's a checklist of some of the most common patenting pitfalls.

A range of employment opportunities is opening up for fledglings of the biotechnology industry as well as for young entrepreneurial scientists returning from overseas.

A new group within industry association AusBiotech is about to host its first networking event.