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Don’t punish companies that fail to deliver risky projects. Help them do better next time, says David Bott, Director of Innovation Programmes at the Technology Strategy Board.

Delivering the EU patent just got harder. But the Belgian presidency says it won’t give up on this daunting task.

The UK Intellectual Property Office has kicked off a year long research programme into intellectual property and its value to the economy.

ESADE is the only business school to be a named partner in an EIT project. It sees this as central to its work to promote innovation.

Limiting the number of languages used by a unified patent court is not an affront to Europe’s cultural diversity, but a pragmatic move to increase its competitiveness.

Edinburgh University has announced that it spun out 40 new firms last year, the most ever generated by a Scottish university in a single year.

Philips has invested in Dutch VC Gilde’s new healthcare fund, in what the companies say is a unique cooperation.

The European Investment Bank has agreed a €220 million loan to support research and development projects at the US agricultural equipment giant, John Deere.

A scheme run for the past 15 years to give life science PhD students more commercial awareness has been successful, says an independent review.

A partnership has been forged between the Wellcome Trust and the Department of Biotechnology in India to support the development of new healthcare products in India.

Public spending on research has to stand up to rigorous economic scrutiny said the UK’s new Science Minister David Willetts, in a recent speech.