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Watertight protection is more important than the speed with which patents are granted, according to a survey of business and academia.

Three reports, two commissioned by possible next premier Gordon Brown and one inspired by him provide a glimpse of the future shape of UK innovation policy.

The UK Government's budget preview was an excuse to flood the place with a torrent of papers on science, engineering and technology.

The OECD's "Science, Technology and Industry Outlook" for 2006 predicts that China will become world’s second highest investor in R&D by the end of the year. Europe, meanwhile, gets left behind in its "R&D intensity".

In the recent history of Intellectual Property, the case of MP3 and Fraunhoffer Society, prestigious German research organisation, is a stuff of legend.