Science|Business Reporting

Germany’s largest research funding organisation, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, elected eight new members to its Senate at its general assembly in Bonn.

The preliminary findings of an investigation into the innovation performance of Russia and Ukraine placed them 27th and 35th respectively out of 36 countries considered in the study.

Poland has set out a strategy for developing nanosciences prepared by 14 members of the Interdisciplinary Group for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.

“What we need is not more patents, but more good patents” – the battle cry of the new President of the European Patent Office, Alison Brimelow.