A clause in a Commission initiative aimed at encouraging technology transfer between public and private sectors of the economy sparked criticism this week.
More than 20 years ago Steve Currall came to the UK doing a masters at the LSE. Now the American innovation professor is running a UCL department from a brand-new £11 million building.
The European Commission has introduced rules to harmonise conditions for mobile services on aircraft, paving the way for a pan-European telecoms network in the air.
The UK has launched a new free searchable database for published patents data, allowing users to search and download published patent information, on-line, free of charge.
In the past two years 2.8 million European internet identities have been registered, making .eu, at its second birthday, the fourth most popular top level domain in Europe and the ninth worldwide.
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