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It’s always been tough for start-ups to raise money. And now, when their innovation sparkle is needed more than ever, getting funding just got harder

Research spending goes up in 2011 and projects funded by stimulus money are in progress. But the government needs to show R&D is worth it.

Investment in research and innovation is the way drive the recovery and restore our battered economies, says Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn.

With 11 new centres to begin at the start of 2011, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft brings the total number of its Collaborative Research Centres up to 238.

After registering 57,900 patents last year, covering 8,800 inventions, Siemens pledges to increase its investment in research and development.

The Innovative Vector Control Consortium has been given a second grant by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to fund the development of new insecticides.