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Research spending goes up in 2011 and projects funded by stimulus money are in progress. But the government needs to show R&D is worth it.

The French innovation agency’s approach to risk-sharing is enabling start-ups to attract private capital and make strides in commercialising new technologies.

Three leading institutions have joined forces in a bid for funding to become one of five new University Hospital Institutes being set up through France’s stimulus scheme.

France’s software sector has resisted the economic crisis and is innovating and creating jobs, with SMEs driving the industry, says a new report.

France’s small biopharmaceutical and life science companies have been weakened by the financial crisis and had to face a drastic drop in investment in 2009.

Knowledge management specialist Aureus Pharma is to take part in the BioIntelligence R&D programme, part-funded by the French government.