research and development
Startups
IP analysis platform Patsnap launches CoPilot, its new AI assistant
6:00 am PST • January 18, 2024
Founded in 2007 to help IP and R&D professionals do their jobs more efficiently, Singapore-based Patsnap‘s first product was a global patent search database. Now it’s building out its suite…
Government & Policy
Prepare to amortize: Inflation may spell doom for R&D tax expensing
7:00 am PDT • November 1, 2022
Research and development (R&D) tax breaks have existed for 70 years, but the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in 2017 changed how they can be expensed.
Despite the hype, construction tech will be hard to disrupt
11:59 am PDT • July 9, 2021
Construction technology users are more like general consumers. This means the technology ideally must be easy to use on the first try and adaptable to a wide variety of job…
Startups
Benchling’s software for managing biotech research nabs $34.5 million
9:02 am PDT • July 24, 2019
In a field where the laboratory notebook is still considered the state of the art, it’s no wonder a company like Benchling, which provides software for managing life sciences research,…
