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After more than 30 years of failure there could be political agreement paving the way for a Community Patent by the end of the year.

Spend a third of the EU’s basic research budget through the European Research Council – and spend all the rest on Joint Technology Initiatives.

Thomas Geelhaar, Head of Chemicals R&D at Merck in Darmstadt, Germany, describes how the company scouts for technologies and interacts with universities.

ITI Life Sciences, Scotland’s publicly funded innovation group, is to invest a further £2 million in its programme to develop new drug discovery tools.

A record 156,000 patents were filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty in 2007, up 4.7 per cent over the previous year.

Radiologists are in short supply in parts of Europe. Telemedicine Clinic solves the problem by remote control, with a network of doctors who diagnose patients on the basis of medical images that arrive by email.

Corporate incubators bridge the seed funding gap, but apart from pocket money what can start-ups learn from their foster parents?

The 2007 European Innovation Scoreboard published this month shows a continued process of convergence within the EU.

Call the Presidential candidates to account for science and make sure they recognise scientific issues are global, says world-leading biologist and Nobel laureate David Baltimore.

Thin drug pipelines prompted the biopharmaceuticals licensing splurge of 2006/7. Now pharma and large biotechs are looking to tap into university research too.

The European Commission wants member states to adopt a code of conduct for nanotechnology research at universities, research institutes and companies.

Tough news for America. China’s technological development is set to make it the main driver of world’s economy – and an integrated Europe could overtake it too.

Commissioner Ján Figel has named the people charged with recommending the governing board of the European Institute of Technology.

The exchange of knowledge requires professional people who understand how to do it – including how to manage IP, says Gilles Capart from ProTon Europe.