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Finland already beats the rest of Europe on R&D spending. Now it plans to boost it still further to 4 per cent of GDP by 2011.

The European Research Council says its first batch of proposals from older scientists was excellent, with a broad range of nationalities – but not enough women.

Professor Geneviève Berger, who led France’s CNRS between 2000 and 2003, has been appointed as Unilever’s chief R&D officer.

Industrial giant GE has based one of its three global R&D Centres in Munich. Centre head Carlos Härtel gives Science|Business an insight into the research that goes on there.

Manchester University has won €5 million to begin joint planning of how millions of samples can be managed and made available to research scientists across Europe.

Edinburgh Instruments has made its first sale of a new product containing technology developed in an ITI R&D programme, triggering a royalty payment to ITI.

A single structure for start-up companies is critical for innovation, said Commissioner Charlie McCreevy at the launch of the Small Business Act for Europe.

The Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases and the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development are to jointly develop new medicines for tuberculosis.

Two days were reserved by the European Patent Office to hear an appeal over the application for a stem cell patent. But only one was needed in the end.