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The 2011 Global Innovation Index complied by the business School INSEAD puts Switzerland in the number one spot, with Sweden second and Singapore third

A global culture is developing on the Internet. As a consequence, Internet users of all ages and social class now share values with each other that they don’t share with their fellow (offline) citizens.

The funders of the telescope have established a founding board and selected Jodrell Bank Observatory, Manchester, UK to host the project office

Human capital, infrastructure and good governance may provide support for innovation and economic growth, but they don’t guarantee it

Science plays an increasing role in sport - not just in training elite athletes - but in spreading health, social and economic benefits too.

Estonia is using Structural Funds, Framework grants and international collaboration to build its science base and drive innovation.

MIT and South Africa’s Technology Innovation Agency are to join the Pool for Open Innovation against Neglected Tropical Diseases.

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.