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Thomas Geelhaar, Head of Chemicals R&D at Merck in Darmstadt, Germany, describes how the company scouts for technologies and interacts with universities.

ITI Life Sciences, Scotland’s publicly funded innovation group, is to invest a further £2 million in its programme to develop new drug discovery tools.

Europe’s fastest civil supercomputer, Jugene, was inaugurated by North Rhine-Westphalia Prime Minister Jürgen Rüttgers at the Jülich Research Centre last week.

A record 156,000 patents were filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty in 2007, up 4.7 per cent over the previous year.

Radiologists are in short supply in parts of Europe. Telemedicine Clinic solves the problem by remote control, with a network of doctors who diagnose patients on the basis of medical images that arrive by email.

A Swedish report into levels of research funding for universities since the mid 1990s shows resources increased up to 2002 and then stagnated.

The EU is investing a further €12 million in a network that connects countries in Asia and Pacific to Europe to carry out research projects.

The 2007 European Innovation Scoreboard published this month shows a continued process of convergence within the EU.

Scotland launched the latest version of its strategy to become one of world’s top locations for life sciences by 2020, as the hopes vested in two of its leading research companies Stem Cell Sciences and Ardana Biosciences, turned to dust.

The UK Medical Research Council has appointed Dave Tapolczay as head of its technology transfer company, MRC Technology.