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Europe has staked its future on building a knowledge economy. But once again, a major R&D investment by one of its leading companies is going to the US.

France’s best-known engineering school, the École Polytechnique, is mapping out a major expansion drive for the next five years.

Global acceptance of biotech crops increased in 2006, with acreage reaching 102 million hectares in 22 countries, according to a new report.

Scotland is investing £9.5 million of public money in the Swedish stem cell company Cellartis AB to fund an R&D and manufacturing facility in Dundee.

The UK government has given £1.1 million to Plasticell Ltd to fund the development of a system to automate stem cell research.

In a rare example of a university tec transfer deal attracting an upfront payment, French pharma company Ipsen paying €1.25 million for a treatment licence.

Intellectual property laws have fallen short of providing legal protection on indigenous knowledge. Now India is setting up a database to establish prior art on traditional knowledge.