Science|Business Reporting

The UK has began a consultation on a new system for assessing the quality of university research that will also take into account the quality of tech transfer.

Financial services company Citi has opened a $24 million centre in Dublin to develop next-generation intelligent payments systems and other products.

Cambridge’s Institute for Manufacturing has produced a new guide to show how to follow in the footsteps of firms that have embraced open innovation.

A £25 million centre at Queen’s University Belfast will gather together expertise in data security, network security, wireless network enabled systems and surveillance intelligence systems.

The countries of the World Intellectual Property Organisation last week suspended the earliest of the three acts that govern the International Deposit of Industrial Designs.

Cancer research is not pursuing advances in knowledge likely to have the biggest impact on combating the disease in the next few decades, conference hears.

Ireland has become the first Member State to link its national qualifications to the European Qualifications Framework for lifelong learning.

The EC has published a non-confidential version of the ruling that Intel broke antitrust rules by excluding competitors from the market for x86 computer chips.

The Governing Board of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology has named Gérard de Nazelle, from Shell, as the first director.

The European Patent Office has published the names of the four candidates who will be interviewed for the post of President, which falls vacant on 1 July 2010.