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A contest between Australia and South Africa over the world’s biggest radio telescope highlights the economic impact of ‘Big Science’.

The old established centres are being challenged by the emergence of new poles of world science and innovation. But could this benefit Europe, the US and Japan?

GlaxoSmithKline is to establish an ‘Open Lab’ with $8 million funding to carry out research into neglected tropical diseases.

WIPO’s Patentscope, which currently hosts data on more than 1.6 million international patent applications, has been extended.

More than 50 R&D institutions from 18 African countries are to take part in international consortia under a programme funded by the Wellcome Trust.

The world has coordinated its rescue of the banks, but there is no coordination or agreement over how innovation money should be spent.

A new organisation has sprung up to represent university enterprise societies and spread the entrepreneurial spirit across the UK.

South Africa’s two-pronged approach to creating its national innovation system is an example for Europe to follow.

A new programme has been set up to promote the use of IP as a catalyst for economic and commercial development in Africa and LDCs.

A new report from law firm Taylor Wessing ranks countries as places to obtain, exploit, enforce and attack intellectual property.

The EU has made a call for greater transparency and accountability in running the Internet when the current system comes to an end in September.

Increased political will is driving a boom in the use of GM crops. But Europe risks getting left behind, says a new report.

For the first time in a decade, total R&D funding in the US is forecast to drop, but the decline is expected to prompt more international collaborations and research with dual benefits.

Graham Spittle, Vice President Software for UK, Ireland and South Africa with IBM, has been re-appointed as Chair of the UK Technology Strategy Board (TSB), for a further three years.

South African scientists will gain access to European molecular biology research through the European Molecular Biology Organization after their government signed a cooperation agreement.