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Top EU official Françoise Le Bail pushes new innovation policies as a route to economic recovery.

The long-running row over software patenting has finally been referred to the highest appeals body of the European Patent Office.

AstraZeneca subsidiary MedImmune Inc opened a new biologics research and development centre in Cambridge, UK, a major expansion to its base at the former Cambridge Antibody Technology facility.

Research Councils UK (RCUK) has opened a new office in New Delhi, India, to promote research collaboration between the two countries.

Despite being the first country in the Eurozone to go into recession, the Irish government said it would maintain funding for Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), with a commitment of Euro 179 million in the 2009 budget.

Europe’s high-tech clusters are failing to reach their full potential. We need encourage more cooperation, says the Commission.

They both come armed with broad plans to stimulate innovation, but the U.S. presidential hopefuls may face their own funding gap amid the flailing economy.

Computer science experts from Goldsmiths University in London and University College London (UCL) have initiated a project that will combine expertise from both universities.

Researchers have established the International Human Microbiome Consortium to help further our understanding of the role of microbes in health and disease.