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The long-running row over software patenting has finally been referred to the highest appeals body of the European Patent Office.

Top EU official Françoise Le Bail pushes new innovation policies as a route to economic recovery.

Sweden is the most competitive economy as measured by the European Union Lisbon criteria, followed by Denmark, Finland and the Netherlands, according to the World Economic Forum’s The Lisbon Review 2008.

One of Cambridge’s best known entrepreneurs has been appointed chair of the East of England Stem Cell Network.

They both come armed with broad plans to stimulate innovation, but the U.S. presidential hopefuls may face their own funding gap amid the flailing economy.

Europe’s high-tech clusters are failing to reach their full potential. We need encourage more cooperation, says the Commission.

Forget bank bailouts, investment in innovative sectors like IT, medical devices and biotech will be important in rescuing the US economy. Here’s how John McCain and Barack Obama would apply science and innovation policy to solve the economic crisis.

Despite being the first country in the Eurozone to go into recession, the Irish government said it would maintain funding for Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), with a commitment of Euro 179 million in the 2009 budget.

Research Councils UK (RCUK) has opened a new office in New Delhi, India, to promote research collaboration between the two countries.

Cash-rich pharma is dropping any pretence they are buying cash-strapped biotech for access to innovative technology. What it wants is products. Let’s hope it doesn’t suffocate the feedstock of innovation in the process.

Austrian MEP Paul Rübig received the European Patent Office’s 2008 award for Research & Innovation in recognition of his strong advocacy for small and medium-sized enterprises.

The credit crunch is strangling biotech. And with no access to capital, the only way out is to sell to big pharma.