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Scotland is investing £9.5 million of public money in the Swedish stem cell company Cellartis AB to fund an R&D and manufacturing facility in Dundee.

Global acceptance of biotech crops increased in 2006, with acreage reaching 102 million hectares in 22 countries, according to a new report.

France’s best-known engineering school, the École Polytechnique, is mapping out a major expansion drive for the next five years.

The French presidential election is unlike any previous one: this time, both right and left are hoisting research policy to the top of their agendas.

The UK's National Environment Research Council (NERC) has launched Oceans 2025, an ambitious GBP120 million five-year programme.

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.