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Specialist units set up by UK Revenue and Customs Departments to encourage SMEs to apply for R&D tax credits made cash payments totalling £150 million in the past year.

The UK has strengthened its scientific ties with China with the official opening of the Research Councils UK office in Beijing, the first of its type outside Europe.

France Angels, the country’s business angels’ network, has agreed to provide seed funding for the Microsoft start-up programme Idées.

The WHO is looking to patent pools to prevent blocking IP and give earlier access to generics manufacturers as part of a plan to improve healthcare in developing countries.

The European Consortium of Innovative Universities this week celebrates its tenth birthday with a conference at the University of Twente.

Researchers using the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, and working with scientists, have become the first to elucidate the structure of a membrane protein, an important advance for drug discovery.