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In 2007, the UK’s largest retail chemists chain set up a dedicated centre at Swansea University to promote open innovation. One year on, the first product is about to hit the market.

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.

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.