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Development of Europe’s satellite navigation system, Galileo has ground to a halt, with the supposed contractors baulking at the escalating cost of developing the system.

Today companies often spend as much on intangible intellectual assets as they do on tangible ones. The OECD is trying to find out how to value them.

A draft European law to fight counterfeiting and piracy has been narrowed to exclude patent infringements – but many other legitimate activities look set to be criminalised.

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.

It’s easy to produce papers and make recommendations, says former Finnish prime minister Esko Aho. Now we need practical results.