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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.

Microsoft Corp. executives, stressing the importance of collaboration in the company’s fast-growing global research program, called for more R&D partners among European universities and small companies.

Obesity has been promoted from lifestyle issue to global health problem. But can fatness be cured? A new drug may be a turning point.

On 8 June the European Commission starts the evaluation of the biofuels technological platform it will support in 2007 - 2013. But the choice will be mired in political treacle.

134,073: the number of patents filed for via the Patent Cooperation Treaty in 2005, according to the World Intellectual Property Organization – a rise of 9.4 per cent over 2004.

TU Delft ditched the usual model of outlicensing or seeking venture capital backing when it was looking to commercialise a novel wastewater treatment technology.

The annual growth of biotech cultivation grew last year at its slowest pace since 1996, when biotech crops were first commercialised, according to a report by the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications, a non-profit group that advocates the use of bio-crops.