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The GREAT Consortium has been set up to design a mass market receiver for Galileo, Europe's new global satellite navigation system that is due to come into operation in 2012.

The UK government said it will contribute £16 million to a £32 million programme aimed at ensuring the safe operation of unmanned aviation vehicles (UAV) in civil airspace.

An interesting set of deals bring together major companies and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council in a new model for academic/industry collaboration.

It is a hard life being an electronics business, they just keep changing the science under you. This time around we have a combination of electronics and spin – and that has nothing to do with PR.

Yochai Benkler and Lawrence Lessig are two well-known law professors affiliated with very prestigious US universities, Yale and Stanford, respectively. They are specialised in intellectual property like policemen are specialised in crime: it is their bailiwick but they do not particularly like it.

The American Bar Association makes available its take on the USA's "federal environmental statutes" and their implications for nanotechnology.

The Food Standards Agency in the UK has published its Science Strategy 2005-10

New approaches are needed for predicting the safe dose of novel drugs that are designed to interact with highly specific human targets because existing preclinical toxicology studies may be inadequate.

We applaud a rare bout of honesty.

The IP battlefield is large and diversified. It goes way beyond highly-publicized battles about patenting genes or semi-conductor designs. A case in point is a lawsuit filed July 14 by Materialise nv, a spin-off of Belgium’s Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, against a Swiss-Swedish company, Nobel Biocare.