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A common format for filing patent applications to the European, Japanese and US patent offices will be introduced at the beginning of next year.

There was no headway towards the Lisbon target of spending 3 per cent of GDP on R&D, according to the latest figures from Eurostat.

It may be a cheap imitation of the original vision, but Europe’s answer to MIT goes ahead. Now wait for the wrangling on where to site it.

The European Commission has ordered Italy to pay back €270M of loans for aeronautics R&D after rules on state aid were broken.

DePuy Inc, the company that claims to have pioneered the hip replacement, is to set up an Innovation Centre with backing from the Irish Development Agency.

Valerie Pécresse, Research and Higher Education minister, reveals her agenda to Science|Business.

The Psychiatric Research Institute of Neuroscience (PsyRing) in Glasgow, Scotland, is on a commercialisation drive.

The UK government is setting up a National Enterprise Academy to give students over the age of 16 the skills to start their own businesses.

The latest Eurostat data show Europe is not delivering on the Lisbon targets. So what is to be done, asks Bruno van Pottelsberghe from the think tank Bruegel.

Computer firm HP has re-structured its HP Labs research division ito focus efforts on fewer, bigger projects, and to speed up the process of tech transfer.