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The UK research charity, the Wellcome Trust, is joining MIT to launch a fellowship scheme to promote interdisciplinary science.

The UK is projected to have a £4 billion fall in R&D spend in 2009, according to a new report published by the Management Consultancies Association.

The number of international trademark registrations topped the one million mark when an Austrian company, Grune Erde, registered its mark this month.

PrimerDesign Ltd, a UK firm founded by Southampton University scientists, claims that it has won the race to produce the first DNA test kit for swine flu.

Despite its €1.06 billion fine, Intel denies harming EU customers, and, as it opens its new R&D lab, says it remains committed to European R&D.

Nokia is to give away some of its intellectual property for free, in a scheme set up to recycle unused ideas and innovations to other Finnish companies.