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Research funding is up and ideas are still flowing, but the financial crisis is making it harder to commercialise technology, say top US universities.

Dundee University is to lead a €12 million research project aiming to find early indicators of certain types of cancer and to promote the development of new drugs.

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

Grassroots innovation is taking hold again, as the US moves to reassert its dominance in technology products.

Personalised healthcare is a complex concept. It will be best to chew on a mouthful at a time, while keeping an eye on the bigger picture.

The EU needs to create a better environment for innovation, and prescriptions on R&D spending won’t be enough.

A new international network, the Web Science Trust Network of Laboratories, has been launched to create an alliance of world-class research laboratories.

On Tuesday, IBM and the University of Porto inaugurated the first Centre of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Portugal, located on the campus of the College of Engineering.

The Irish government has announced that the United Technologies Corporation is to establish an energy and security research centre in Ireland.

Freie Universität Berlin has added an office in Cairo, Egypt to its liaison offices in New York, Moscow, Beijing, New Delhi, and Brussels.