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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.

There was an unprecedented number of cybersquatting cases in 2007, according to the latest statistics from the World Intellectual Property Organisation.

Intrapreneur Jean Stéphenne, manager of GSK Biologicals, has transformed the company’s research organisation and revolutionised the global vaccines market.

A tale of two cities: as the industry in Lyon trumpeted the benefits of biotech, MEPs in Strasbourg looked the other way, and declined to debate them

For the third year running the countries of north east Asia have upped their patent applications, shifting the international balance in innovation.

Intellectual property laws have fallen short of providing legal protection on indigenous knowledge. Now India is setting up a database to establish prior art on traditional knowledge.

New research suggests that the majority of start-ups offer products or services that are not new to the market.