Science|Business Reporting

As it passes its first birthday, a checklist of progress to date in the formation of the Innovation Union, a key element of the Europe 2020 strategy for jobs and growth, was published by the Commission

The US National Science Foundation (NSF) announced the formation of Science Across Virtual Institutes (SAVI), to support collaboration among researchers and spur scientific discovery

SMEs need better protection of their patent rights to prevent big companies stealing their ideas

The National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training is to collaborate with GE Healthcare to develop new antibody testing technologies

An interface developed at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne already allows users to manoeuvre wheelchairs by thought transference. Now this will be applied to cars

The advent of personalised medicine means cancer survival over the long term could be improved by running smaller, faster trials with less stringent evidence criteria, the 2011 European Multidisciplinary Cancer Congress in Sweden heard this week

The consumer goods company gets access to all resources through a single agreement

This is the German research organisation’s first centre in South America

Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing says it is possible to automatically scan for gems in Chinese language journals and patents

Data on worldwide IP activity in 2009, published this week, show Asia now accounts for 37 per cent of trademark applications