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Its government will increase science spending by 25 per cent in the next three years – but the UK won’t meet the 3 per cent Lisbon target.

A record 36,471 international trademark applications were received in 2006 by the World Intellectual Property Organisation.

Is MIT really that special? Does it have lessons for others? A recent paper says that you have to line up a bunch of related factors – scientific, organisational, regional and so on. Picking them off one at a time won’t work.

A new study claims that meeting the EU’s biofuels target would spur a huge increase in food imports – and contribute to deforestation in less developed countries.

European pharma and biotech companies are behind the US. But in one shining area, Europe has outpaced the US in creating a new sector: biosimilars.

The Finnish nanotechnology industry is in a boom phase, with the number of companies involved in the sector growing by 111 per cent in the past two years.

The latest buzzword among Brussels technocrats is “lead markets”. And it’s going to be put into action, on an experimental basis, in 2007.

Embryonic stem cell lines should be eligible to be granted both method and product patents, according to Swedish and US researchers writing in an international journal.