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Just under a year since the last suit was settled Bavarian Nordic is going back to court, seeking a slice of a lucrative cancer vaccine deal.

Finland already beats the rest of Europe on R&D spending. Now it plans to boost it still further to 4 per cent of GDP by 2011.

The European Research Council says its first batch of proposals from older scientists was excellent, with a broad range of nationalities – but not enough women.

Two days were reserved by the European Patent Office to hear an appeal over the application for a stem cell patent. But only one was needed in the end.

The Council of Ministers is to provide €100 million from the EU’s 7th Framework Programme to boost research capacities of SMEs in Europe.

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.