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Research funding is up and ideas are still flowing, but the financial crisis is making it harder to commercialise technology, say top US universities.

Grassroots innovation is taking hold again, as the US moves to reassert its dominance in technology products.

Europe needs to coordinate its social security systems to increase the mobility of researchers, write Danny Pieters, Paul Schoukens and Katrien Maes.

A new international network, the Web Science Trust Network of Laboratories, has been launched to create an alliance of world-class research laboratories.

The 42 metre European Extremely Large Telescope, which will be the world’s biggest telescope, is to be located on Armazones in Chile.

Germany’s High-Tech Grunderfonds has held its first partnering conference in Bonn, with 50 early-stage portfolio companies presenting their technologies.

On Tuesday, IBM and the University of Porto inaugurated the first Centre of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Portugal, located on the campus of the College of Engineering.

The first quarter of 2010 saw 91 Israeli high-tech companies raise $234 million, the lowest quarterly amount for five years.

The Irish government has announced that the United Technologies Corporation is to establish an energy and security research centre in Ireland.