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

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.

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.

After months of lobbying, the Hungarian capital was chosen as headquarters for the European Institute of Technology and Innovation.

GE’s R&D centre in Munich is a European hub for Open Innovation. The head of the Centre, Carlos Härtel, describes the philosophy that drives its research to Science|Business’s Peter Wrobel.