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Research institutions and companies in Estonia can now apply for national support in preparing projects and submitting bids for EU-funded research programmes, including reimbursement of VAT costs.

The Commission will not object to France fudning a programme on personal management of multimedia data for the internet and mobile telephony.

In 2007 the Swiss National Science Foundation awarded grants worth a total of CHF 531 million, and despite record application numbers the success rate increased.

UK researchers from Imperial College and Bristol University are to study the development of research management as a profession.

The controversy over embryonic stem cell research will not dissipate until the technology proves itself in the clinic. Now the regulators have to move, say Science|Business’s Nuala Moran.

Finnish researcher Jyrki Ali-Yrkkö, of the Helsinki School of Economics, has shown it is possible to increase the R&D activities of companies through public funding.

Record venture capital and heated deal environment propelled biotechnology industry forward in 2007, says Ernst & Young’s biotech report for last year.

France’s research minister wants to split the country’s main research agency into six – and take way its role in biology and computer science.