Nuala Moran

Are patents too easy to acquire – or too hard? The UK is trying to find out, writes Nuala Moran

Overcoming the familiar barriers to public learning and understanding of science is focus of new research professorship established by the Hasselblad Foundation jointly at Chalmers University of Technology and Göteborg University in Göteborg, Sweden.

Invest Northern Ireland has announced that Europe’s leading enterprise software company SAP AG, is to locate its first UK research centre in Belfast.

"There is a large gap between the rhetoric of a political system that preaches the Knowledge Society and the reality of budgetary and other priorities that have shown little shift in preparing to engage with it." Esko Aho, former Prime Minister of Finland, in Creating an Innovative Europe, January 2006.

Europe preaches the knowledge society, but its aversion to risk and reluctance to change has got to go, warns Esko Aho, former prime minister of Finland.

Researchers at the University of Bonn in Germany have succeeded in finding a potentially low-cost source of a potent antiviral compound known to prevent replication of the HIV virus in vitro.

Scientists at the John Innes plant research centre in Norwich, UK have uncovered a gene that could form the basis of new crop varieties able to cope with changes in world climate brought about by global warming.

Scientists at the University of Manchester have invented an electronic nose that can monitor odours and methane at waste landfill and water treatment plants remotely.

Nanotechnology has the power to transform healthcare. But Europe will lose out to the United States unless it can mount a coherent approach to developing nanomedicine, says a new report.

Dental implant company Neoss Ltd raised £5 million in its third funding round, enabling it to further develop the technology and expand its sales and marketing operations.