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Higher education needs to put greater priority on engaging with industry, improve teaching, and produce more researchers, says the Commission in its strategy for modernising the sector

This is the German research organisation’s first centre in South America

Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing says it is possible to automatically scan for gems in Chinese language journals and patents

Data on worldwide IP activity in 2009, published this week, show Asia now accounts for 37 per cent of trademark applications

The quality of patent filings has fallen by 20 per cent over the past two decades. And the rush to protect even minor improvements in products or services is overburdening patent offices

GE Healthcare launched an open call to oncology researchers and healthcare specialists, seeking ideas to improve the detection and treatment of breast cancer, as it committed to spend $1 billion on cancer R&D in the next five years