Science|Business Reporting

With 11 new centres to begin at the start of 2011, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft brings the total number of its Collaborative Research Centres up to 238.

After registering 57,900 patents last year, covering 8,800 inventions, Siemens pledges to increase its investment in research and development.

The Innovative Vector Control Consortium has been given a second grant by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to fund the development of new insecticides.

Abeo’s new construction technology won it the Cleantech World Championship at a Silicon Valley event, in front of more than 1000 international investors.

The Innovation Academy, set up by Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin, aims to develop a new breed of entrepreneurial graduates.