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The EU is meant to be good at compromise. Not so on patents. As the latest compromise bit the dust, Commissioner McCreevy promised to have one, last, go.

For European tech start-ups, 2006 was the year that the traffic lights for money switched from red to yellow. Yet to be seen is whether they finally go green next year.

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Seven partners have teamed up with €2.4 million in EU backing to develop a vaccine against Alzheimer’s disease.

The UK is setting up a national network to carry out clinical trials of paediatric medicines, filling the gap left by pharmaceutical companies which usually test drugs only on adults.

Ireland’s new Biomedical Diagnostics Institute was launched last week as the focus for industrial-clinical-academic research collaborations.