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The Innovative Medicines Initiative has set out guidelines on how collaborative partners should approach the thorny issue of IP rights, in time for its fourth call

A public consultation on access to online scientific information, and its preservation has been launched by the European Commission

EU-funded scientists have developed risk assessment criteria for engineered nanomaterials that will help support experts in making innovation and policy decisions

The European Council’s approval in June of new legislative proposals has opened the way for the single European patent to be in place in 1 - 2 years. But developing an accompanying patent court will take longer

A new transatlantic alliance showcased its ambition to develop diagnostics for 8,000 rare diseases and double the number of registered Orphan drugs for rare conditions by 2020, at the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) meeting in Washington

As it prepares to launch €418 million of new calls, the Commission says the bureaucracy-lite public-private projects set up in the economic emergency will be a model for research funding in the future

A new report points to a lack of confidence among life sciences executives about the quality of innovation programmes