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Higher education needs to put greater priority on engaging with industry, improve teaching, and produce more researchers, says the Commission in its strategy for modernising the sector

This is the German research organisation’s first centre in South America

Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing says it is possible to automatically scan for gems in Chinese language journals and patents

Data on worldwide IP activity in 2009, published this week, show Asia now accounts for 37 per cent of trademark applications

The quality of patent filings has fallen by 20 per cent over the past two decades. And the rush to protect even minor improvements in products or services is overburdening patent offices

GE Healthcare launched an open call to oncology researchers and healthcare specialists, seeking ideas to improve the detection and treatment of breast cancer, as it committed to spend $1 billion on cancer R&D in the next five years

A comprehensive reform of US patents takes effect today (16 September), when the America Invents Act is made law. The changes bring the US patent system into greater conformity with the rest of the world.

Deals take a notoriously long time to close in biotech. Maybe that’s why so many came to fruition in August

With plans for a new UK research and innovation strategy on the drawing board, the influential charity, Cancer Research UK, is leading a call for the government to build an “ideal environment” for research.

More than a decade after it was first mooted, the Commission is looking for new ideas for the proposed single market in research, as the deadline for its formation looms

It’s hard to care about the European Research Area. But creating a single market for research is important and the Commission needs to show the world why