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“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.

Germany’s largest research funding organisation, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, elected eight new members to its Senate at its general assembly in Bonn.

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.

North Rhine–Westphalia’s Industrial Biotechnology Cluster took joint honours with the Hamburg region in German’s BioIndustry 2021 competition.

The European Union has announced pilot schemes aimed at bringing European and Australian and New Zealand researchers closer together.

In swelling its partners from 20 in 2000 to over 1,300 today, IBM has proved that its venture-partnering model can yield terrific results.

Is medical research worth the money? The UK Medical Research Council has commissioned to find out the answer.