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US streets paved with venture-capital gold? That would come as a surprise to most American entrepreneurs, says Jonathan Zuck.

The German Research Foundation has opened an office in India, and is to introduce a new collaborative programme with its Indian counterpart next year.

Booz Allen Hamilton’s second annual global innovation survey promises to continue last year's debate on the link between R&D spending and corporate performance.

The new system developed over the past six years by Chalmers University of Technology has notched up its first exit.

A French start-up is joining forces with Microsoft to enlarge its innovative multiplatform datas and services engines to .Net environment.

Microsoft Corp. executives, stressing the importance of collaboration in the company’s fast-growing global research program, called for more R&D partners among European universities and small companies.

On Tuesday, October 24, IBM filed in Texas federal court two suits for patent infringement against Amazon Inc. While details of five patents were not disclosed, one patent attracted particular interest: Patent US 5,319,542 - Ordering Items Using an Electronic Catalogue. Is it possible that IBM challenges the famous “one-click order” patent of Amazon? In any case, if the suit comes to trial, it will provide an opportunity to test not only the validity of this particular patent, but more generally of “business methods” patents, which have been highly controversial.