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The UK has began a consultation on a new system for assessing the quality of university research that will also take into account the quality of tech transfer.

Financial services company Citi has opened a $24 million centre in Dublin to develop next-generation intelligent payments systems and other products.

Cambridge’s Institute for Manufacturing has produced a new guide to show how to follow in the footsteps of firms that have embraced open innovation.

A £25 million centre at Queen’s University Belfast will gather together expertise in data security, network security, wireless network enabled systems and surveillance intelligence systems.

The countries of the World Intellectual Property Organisation last week suspended the earliest of the three acts that govern the International Deposit of Industrial Designs.

Strengthen research policy and step up the building of the European Research Area, Janez Potočnik tells ministers as he comes to the end his term as Commissioner

Interim Director Jack Metthey tells Science|Business he is banishing the red tape that threatens to undermine the European Research Council’s hard-earned reputation for funding excellent research.

Europe needs to expand its focus in biotech beyond healthcare, and apply it as a tool to fight climate change, a conference in Barcelona heard.

Cancer research is not pursuing advances in knowledge likely to have the biggest impact on combating the disease in the next few decades, conference hears.