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.