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As the European Commission ponders the single European patent, the European Patent Office is under attack from national patent offices that want some of its functions.

Orla Protein Technologies, a spin-out from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, is looking to raise £3 million in a series A funding round for the next stage of its development.

The Health Research Board of Ireland is to join the consortium of UK research funders developing a single gateway to the largest pool of patients in the world.

Germany's academic spin-outs are not such a force for developing the economy after all, according to an in depth study of 20 of their number.

Finland wants to use its six months presiding over the EU to change innovation policy. It picks up the gauntlet at a meeting of competition ministers next week.

TeGenero, the company behind the drug trial fiasco that put six healthy volunteers into intensive care, has announced it is filing for insolvency.

Israel’s high-tech incubator companies are joining the stock market – and perhaps providing a new model for technology commercialisation

Swedish spin-out Denator Biotechnology is raising money to fund development of its technology that analyses protein samples without adulterating them with added reagents.

German company Q-Cells AG has taken a stake in Swiss university spin-off VHF Technologies, which makes flexible plastic films for solar panels.

Innovation will be a priority for the EU over the next six months