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Three out of four Starting grants go to young researchers hosted by Germany, UK, France, the Netherlands, Israel and Spain. There are no grants going to Switzerland

China and the US set the pace on patent filings in 2013, while the number of patent applications received by the European Patent Office fell

Innovation clusters in life sciences and raw materials set to start in 2015, following year-long bidding competition

Member states line up 2,000 project proposals in transport, energy and research, for funding from the EU’s new investment scheme

In the race to create world-beating technology companies from scratch, Germany spent most of the past thirty years on the sidelines. But the country’s start-up ecosystem is now flourishing - and foreign investors are taking a second look

The project aims to bring together researchers, engineers, people from industry and young students and to encourage them to come up with new ideas that are useful for society, says Markus Nordberg of CERN

There are grounds for cautious optimism as member states propose to make an exception for R&D, and an MEP involved in drafting the data protection bill says the new law will not be allowed to hamper research

The EU has formally accepted Swiss scientists back into a handful of research programmes

In 2013, the growth rate of private R&D investment in Europe fell to 2.9 per cent, due to falling corporate profits and a weak pharma and tech sector

Off-shoots of technology used in the recent Rosetta mission are coming back down to Earth to help detect ulcers and cancer and make submarines safer