Science|Business Reporting

A record 156,000 patents were filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty in 2007, up 4.7 per cent over the previous year.

Europe’s fastest civil supercomputer, Jugene, was inaugurated by North Rhine-Westphalia Prime Minister Jürgen Rüttgers at the Jülich Research Centre last week.

ITI Life Sciences, Scotland’s publicly funded innovation group, is to invest a further £2 million in its programme to develop new drug discovery tools.