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The State of Victoria, Australia, population 5 million, wants to be in the top five for biotech by 2010 – and it’s building a synchrotron to help it get there.

The international patents system is emerging a key engine of economic development, according to the latest annual report of the World Intellectual Property Organization.

The biotech industry needs to take a lesson from the film industry and develop investment vehicles that make it possible to pool intellectual property, says a US think tank.

China and the EU have embarked on Science and Technology Year

RE$EARCH Infosource has issued this year's analysis of "Top Corporate R&D Spenders" in Canada.

Just three German universities are to get top funding as "elite" research institutions – concentrating resources on a few winners in a national contest to boost R&D and attract international investment.