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Manchester University is leading a £8.3 million project to develop a new type of particle accelerator adapted for applications in medicine and industry, and for basic research.

The Novo Nordisk Foundation has donated €13.4 million to a new centre for protein research at the University of Copenhagen.

The German state of Rheinland-Pfalz has supported the opening of a new innovation cluster to carry out research and development in the commercial vehicle sector.

French biotech consultants Bionest Partners has a system for valuing loss-making biotech companies using information available on a company website.

When it comes to biotech, the public sector is forging ahead in terms of intellectual property outputs, but the lead taken by academic institutions is almost entirely limited to the US.

Two major Polish institutions, the universities of Warsaw and Wroclaw have joined forces to form PLERCIM, and the new body has become a member of ERCIM, the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics.

An historic all-Ireland collaborative research partnership uniting universities in Northern Ireland and the Republic has been struck between Queen’s University Belfast (QUB), Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and University College Dublin (UCD).

Big Physics meets Industry, as the UK's biggest new science facility, Diamond synchrotron, prepares to welcome corporate customers.