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Supreme Court Rulings and patent reform are making it harder to defend patents in the US – and biotechs are falling back on trade secrets to protect their IP.

Industrial giant GE has based one of its three global R&D Centres in Munich. Centre head Carlos Härtel gives Science|Business an insight into the research that goes on there.

Massachusetts is better placed than any state in the US to achieve high-quality economic growth, according to a study by the Milken Institute.

Professor Geneviève Berger, who led France’s CNRS between 2000 and 2003, has been appointed as Unilever’s chief R&D officer.

Manchester University has won €5 million to begin joint planning of how millions of samples can be managed and made available to research scientists across Europe.

Edinburgh Instruments has made its first sale of a new product containing technology developed in an ITI R&D programme, triggering a royalty payment to ITI.

Europe has started doing better in IT research but still has a lot more to do to capitalise on the results, says a report by former Finnish Prime Minister Esko Aho.

After months of lobbying, the Hungarian capital was chosen as headquarters for the European Institute of Technology and Innovation.