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The European Commission has published its Small Business Act for Europe in a bid to cut red tape and establish a new pan-European company structure.

The Council of Ministers is to provide €100 million from the EU’s 7th Framework Programme to boost research capacities of SMEs in Europe.

Supreme Court Rulings and patent reform are making it harder to defend patents in the US – and biotechs are falling back on trade secrets to protect their IP.

Massachusetts is better placed than any state in the US to achieve high-quality economic growth, according to a study by the Milken Institute.

The business intelligence software company Business Objects is to invest €29 million in establishing an R&D Centre in Ireland employing 100 researchers.

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.