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It’s not enough to spin companies out and build them as national enterprises, says Imperial College Pro Rector Tidu Maini. The challenge is to go global – we need to scale up our thinking on science.

“What we need is not more patents, but more good patents” – the battle cry of the new President of the European Patent Office, Alison Brimelow.

Poland has set out a strategy for developing nanosciences prepared by 14 members of the Interdisciplinary Group for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.

The preliminary findings of an investigation into the innovation performance of Russia and Ukraine placed them 27th and 35th respectively out of 36 countries considered in the study.

Around €300 million looks set to be slashed from the European Union’s 2008 research and development budget, and re-channelled into the flagship Galileo satellite project.

US dominance in innovation can no longer be assumed, believe the CEOs of some of its leading technology companies. Competitiveness is set to be a key issue in the 2008 Presidential election