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The European Commission has published its Small Business Act for Europe in a bid to cut red tape and establish a new pan-European company structure.

Europe has started doing better in IT research but still has a lot more to do to capitalise on the results, says a report by former Finnish Prime Minister Esko Aho.

The Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases and the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development are to jointly develop new medicines for tuberculosis.

Edinburgh Instruments has made its first sale of a new product containing technology developed in an ITI R&D programme, triggering a royalty payment to ITI.

Manchester University has won €5 million to begin joint planning of how millions of samples can be managed and made available to research scientists across Europe.

Professor Geneviève Berger, who led France’s CNRS between 2000 and 2003, has been appointed as Unilever’s chief R&D officer.

The business intelligence software company Business Objects is to invest €29 million in establishing an R&D Centre in Ireland employing 100 researchers.

Massachusetts is better placed than any state in the US to achieve high-quality economic growth, according to a study by the Milken Institute.