UK

SMEs need better protection of their patent rights to prevent big companies stealing their ideas

With plans for a new UK research and innovation strategy on the drawing board, the influential charity, Cancer Research UK, is leading a call for the government to build an “ideal environment” for research.

Campaigners say UK science will be £1.6 billion worse off in 2014 -2015, with inflation leading to further erosion. Cancer Research UK, Europe’s largest charitable funder of R&D has called for a new government strategy