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On September 21, 2006, the Russian Parliament approved in the first reading a new draft law on intellectual property. Following the approval, First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said the draft meets international requirements set for Russia and is aimed at Russia's accession to the WTO.

The patents juggernaut chugs out of the lay-by as Charlie McCreevy sets out his latest vision following the large scale consultation that took place earlier this year.

The Hungarian biotech sector is ahead of the rest of the new European Union member states pack, but it remains stymied by a lack of managers with a scientific background.

Microsoft France's support scheme for start-ups has begun its second year, with success at just one of the 25 companies it has helped covering the costs of the programme over two years. And now Microsoft’s subsidiaries in Germany and the UK are joining in.

The common wisdom among technology-policy analysts is that Europe is bad at transferring technology out of its great universities and into the commercial world. A new study asserts that, by some measures, Europe may actually outperform the U.S., Canada and Australia.

A new report in the USA will be the basis for some of the work on the health and safety of nanotechnology.

A battle between IBM and Microsoft for the hearts and minds of tech start-ups took a new turn as IBM announced free technical-development help to promising VC-backed firms.