France’s software sector has resisted the economic crisis and is innovating and creating jobs, with SMEs driving the industry, says a new report.

Knowledge management specialist Aureus Pharma is to take part in the BioIntelligence R&D programme, part-funded by the French government.

IBM has announced the formation of its first Smarter Cities Technology Centre in Dublin, to help cities interconnect and manage core systems.

Created to be for robots what Windows has been for the PC, Jean-Christophe Baillie’s company Gostai is leapfrogging the chasm between lab and markets.

The UK government has announced the creation of a new £30 million Institute for Web Science to carry out research into next generation technologies.

A new EU-funded project, POLARIC, has been launched to develop roll-to-roll printing of high-performance organic electronic circuits.