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The EIT launches its first awards – ACES enters its fourth year. Start-ups from the UK and Germany lead the list of winners, which also includes Spanish and Hungarian companies.

US patent office offers patent examination at breakneck speed for a price

A private equity firm is to raise the largest specialist fund in the world dedicated to commercialising university R&D. The money will be invested in partnership with three of the UK’s leading research universities

The US patent office has released studies on international patenting and prior user defence, with other reports looking at the US patents scene to follow

In total, 8,900 small companies have won grants worth €2.4B

25 countries have agreed to back a single European research plan in neurodegenerative diseases. This is a defining moment for coordinated research says the Commissioner

The European Commission proposes to unite national funding agencies in ‘pacts’ to complete the European Research Area (ERA) by 2014 deadline - without further legislation

The $1,000 genome has arrived, providing the spur for personalised healthcare to move from theory to practice. Some existing examples of best practice and roadmaps for the future are pointing the way

Personalised healthcare promises long-term value. But how can Europe justify the upfront costs at a time of massive cuts in public spending?

Demand for fuel and power is set to keep rising strongly over the next two decades, led by the fast growing economies of China and India, projects BP