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Foreign companies now have more confidence in India’s patent system, but the economic boom is yet to produce much home grown innovation, says a new report.

The industry association France Biotech has set out its proposals for the use of money raised by the French government’s Grand Emprunt or National Loan.

The number of overseas companies establishing operations in France’s high tech clusters is continuing to increase on the back of the country’s generous R&D tax credit system.

As the EU ponders an Innovation Act, the UK Business Secretary Peter Mandelson gave budding entrepreneurs his view of what government can bring to innovation.

Two Framework Programme 6 (FP6) schemes specifically devised to promote the development of the European Research Area failed to deliver, according to a new report.

The central priority of the EU’s new Innovation Policy should be utilising research “rapidly and powerfully” for societal and development benefit, say business leaders in a new report.

The UK Technology Strategy Board (TSB) will invest £39.5 million across six calls in the next six months, in areas from regenerative medicine to low carbon housing.

Microsoft and Tilburg University in the Netherlands have entered into a four-year agreement in which Microsoft will support the research of the Tilburg Law and Economics Centre.

A £37 million Bioscience Campus is to be set up at GlaxoSmithKline’s site at Stevenage, UK, with funding from the government, GlaxoSmithKline, and other partners.

While the US needs a quality lift; Europe needs political leadership and new governance, says Bruno van Pottelsberghe of the Bruegel think tank.