Science|Business Reporting

Research in Motion, the company behind BlackBerry wireless devices, officially opened its new R&D facility in Bochum, Germany, yesterday.

Bosch, DuPont and Xerox Corporation have joined a business-inspired movement to put environmentally important IP into the public domain.

Boston Scientific, a specialist in medical devices for minimally invasive surgical procedures, is to invest €50 million in R&D at its facility in Galway, Ireland.