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EU governments have resigned themselves to the fact that the Galileo satellite navigation network will have to financed from the public purse – but failed to agree where the money will come from.

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft is to establish 11 new Collaborative Research Centres with total funding of £75.5 million over the next four years.

The EU and Japan agreed to strengthen their research ties at a summit last week with plans to improve cooperation and the protection of intellectual property rights

The European Commission and the European Investment Bank have set up a €2 billion risk-sharing finance facility to support research and innovation in Europe.

In an unprecedented move, ETH Zürich has filed a formal complaint over the distribution of the ETH domain’s budget for 2008.

Can European R&D play its way to the top of the international league? In an unprecedented gathering Science|Business brought together some of the leading protagonists to discuss possible tactics.