Science|Business Reporting

A new €60 million biomedical research centre opened in Barcelona earlier this month, after a €15 million philanthropic donation got the project off the ground.

BioRegio STERN Management has won the second competition for strengthening regional clusters in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

PARADIGM, an international R&D project to standardise the development and production of optical chips, has begun.

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is to set up a biotechnology laboratory in Chile, its first research centre in South America, following an agreement with the Chilean government.

The UK government has given the go-ahead to £200 million programme to develop technology and innovation centres modelled on Germany’s Fraunhofer Centres.