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Croatia and Norway have signed up to the European Patent Convention taking the total number of European Patent Organisation member states to 34.

Over half of the students entering European universities are women – but the higher one goes in the research hierarchies, the more women seem to disappear.

The European Commission has selected six areas of pioneering research for its long-awaited lead markets initiative.

An avalanche of 9,167 applications hit the European Research Council in 2007. Its boss reviews the lessons it learned.

The pace of new product introductions picked up in the US in 2006, although the number of start-up companies spun off from research institutions fell, according a new survey.