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The EU’s Facility Sharing in Life Sciences project will give small and medium sized companies access to public laboratories and scientific research facilities.

Can Europe build the world’s first low-carbon economy? The Commission has drafted an ambitious 10-year roadmap to invest in renewable energies.

A European Court ruling on GM soy protein has implications for the patent rights of biotechs, say Nicholas Jones and Josie Zhou of the law firm Withers & Rogers LLP.

The UK government has announced the creation of a new £30 million Institute for Web Science to carry out research into next generation technologies.

International trademark filings under the WIPO’s Madrid System dropped by 16 per cent in 2009 as a result of the global economic downturn.

The real challenge is not generating good ideas, but to successfully commercialise these ideas, says Peter Russo, a renowned entrepreneurship expert.

The culture of Open Innovation is becoming established and its potential benefits are now widely recognised, according to a survey of R&D directors.

Venture capitalists have called for the creation of a Green Investment Bank to accelerate private sector investment.

The UK is putting £12 million into an International Space Innovation Centre and has announced the establishment of a UK Space Agency.