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Is innovation policy in the UK really so technocentric that it discounts other sources of new ideas?

Attempts to reform the European Union's fragmented patent regime stalled once again at the informal summit in Lahti, Finland, on Friday. But there was a better reception for the latest plans to create a European Institute of Technology.

The Ministry of Defence has published its new technology strategy. It also launched a new innovation competition.

A decade on, and another brave company tries to feed us genetically modified tomatoes.

José Manuel Barroso is hoping for unanimous support for a slimmed-down European Institute of Technology. But some diplomats think he might be disappointed.

The biotech industry needs to take a lesson from the film industry and develop investment vehicles that make it possible to pool intellectual property, says a US think tank.

The international patents system is emerging a key engine of economic development, according to the latest annual report of the World Intellectual Property Organization.