“There will never be unanimity on an EU patent” says Belgium’s Minister for Enterprise, after a specially-convened meeting of ministers fails to agree to the latest proposals.
Over half of companies and organisation from across industrial sectors are involved in innovation, according to the EU’s sixth annual survey of innovative activity.
The final stage of an international project to discover the function of every gene in the mouse genome has got underway, while moves are in hand to open up the findings of the project.