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The Czech Republic has capped off a series of investments by US software companies with the news that Red Hat is to set up a development centre in Brno.

A shortage of later stage projects is forcing companies hunt further down the drug discovery ladder. Now the Wellcome Trust is injecting charitable money to fill the holes.

Science is an international affair, of course. But a few recent news tidbits highlight just how fast that international dimension is expanding.

Intellectual property laws have fallen short of providing legal protection on indigenous knowledge. Now India is setting up a database to establish prior art on traditional knowledge.

On 21 December 2006 the Washington Research Foundation (WRF), which manages the intellectual property of Washington State’s public universities, filed a lawsuit alleging infringement of four patents concerning Bluetooth technology.

Check out the research grants to get some insights into what it will take to commercialise polymer electronics.

One of Europe's leading life sciences investors is pulling out to focus on larger, lower-risk private equity buyouts of profitable mid-size biotechs.

Matching consumer demand with R&D may seem like an obvious starting point for innovation. But it has proven a transient goal for many countries and companies.

Europe’s small biotechs have leapt to take advantage of the European Medicines Agency’s (EMEA) office for SMEs, according to a review of its first year in operation.