Nuala Moran

Seven partners have teamed up with €2.4 million in EU backing to develop a vaccine against Alzheimer’s disease.

The UK is setting up a national network to carry out clinical trials of paediatric medicines, filling the gap left by pharmaceutical companies which usually test drugs only on adults.

Ireland’s new Biomedical Diagnostics Institute was launched last week as the focus for industrial-clinical-academic research collaborations.

Danish biotech is on the rise and has outpaced its closest neighbour, Sweden, according to a study published last week.

Watertight protection is more important than the speed with which patents are granted, according to a survey of business and academia.

Three reports, two commissioned by possible next premier Gordon Brown and one inspired by him provide a glimpse of the future shape of UK innovation policy.

The European Commission is endorsing the use of tax incentives to stimulate investment on R&D, and calling for a single standardised approach across member states.

Europe needs to shape up its IT department and make us all better at applying and using computers, says the European Union’s ICT taskforce.

A new agency is needed with significant funds to pull through research ideas into viable products and services, says the UK Conservative Party.

The spending of the top 1,000 R&D spenders rose by more than $20 billion in 2005. But spending alone can’t buy effective innovation, global study.