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As the Spanish government prepares to take on the EU Presidency, proposed cuts to its national R&D budget could undermine the EU’s innovation rhetoric.

Two thirds of private sector productivity growth in the UK between 2000 and 2007 was driven by innovation, according to a new Innovation Index.

Despite some progress, women are still under-represented in science, according to the latest survey on Gender Equality in Science.

Monica Beltrametti, Xerox’s R&D chief in Europe, asks whether recession can provide a stimulus to trans-Atlantic cooperation in research.

Leading names in science and ethics are calling for a rethink in attitudes to the commercialisation of scientific knowledge.

The biggest contract research organisation in Northern Europe is reforming in a bid to increase the exploitability and impact of its scientific research.

WIPO’s Patentscope, which currently hosts data on more than 1.6 million international patent applications, has been extended.

The UK’s Wellcome Trust has announced a major new scheme to give world class researchers seven-year grants to pursue individual research projects without constraints.