Europe

Alternative Dispute Resolution can help keep litigation costs down and reach a speedy conclusion to a dispute.

A common format for filing patent applications to the European, Japanese and US patent offices will be introduced at the beginning of next year.

Since 1996 Index Ventures has invested in seed and early stage start-ups. Now it says Europe’s start-ups are more mature and need care and capital to stay in control.

By all means focus on funding – but let’s spend more on fundamentally redesigning educational systems: less energy on testing outdated models and more on trying new technologies.

Alexander von Gabain and his team laid the foundations of an enterprise that would rise to the top of the continent’s biotechnology pile – and rewrite the region’s rules for biotechnology start-ups.

Efforts to stem Europe’s scientific brain drain could be undermined by pay, as purchasing power dips below India and the EU–US gap widens further.

The European Consortium of Innovative Universities this week celebrates its tenth birthday with a conference at the University of Twente.