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The Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation has appointed Benoît Battistelli as its next chairman.

The World Intellectual Property Organisation is to align its programmes, resources and structures with a new set of goals.

The French Presidency made headway on the Small Business Act, but other matters, notably patent reform, were run off the rails by the financial crisis, says Science|Business’s Paul Meller

France’s public research body, CNR,S has agreed the formation of two International Associated Laboratories with China.

The UK’s biggest funder of life sciences research is to bring industrial expertise directly into research departments.

GE Healthcare reckons that innovation happens more quickly if researchers from different laboratories pool their ideas.