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With different regimes for tax incentives for R&D across the EU, it can be hard to forge the country-to-country links that they like to encourage in the Framework Programme. Some new notes from Brussels set out to make life easier in the future.

The European Commission is wasting no time looking for ways to spend its new massive €54 billion research budget for 2007 to 2013.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences continues to offer intriguing, almost poetic, glimpses of the country's R&D scene.

The spending of the top 1,000 R&D spenders rose by more than $20 billion in 2005. But spending alone can’t buy effective innovation, global study.

French president Jacques Chirac pledged €3 billion for innovative start-ups. But can France’s venture capital community manage this largesse?

The League of European Research Universities wants public services to put 2.5 per cent of their external R&D budgets into start-ups.

BAE Systems has handed out an internal innovation prize that everyone might appreciate.

Faciulitating and accelerating communications between scientists, academics and assorted researchers was one of the original factors behind the creation and development of the Internet.

Never let it be said that China has abandoned its old ways. Socialism lives.

The innovation winners will have to use a more disciplined – and science-based – approach to garnering new ideas, says a leading consultant.

Just four out of ten Portuguese firms were actively investing in innovation between 2002 and 2004, according to a new report.

Pharmaceutical companies need to replenish their portfolios. But are biologics the way to go? Part 2 of Nuala Moran's report from Düsseldorf.

Booz Allen Hamilton’s second annual global innovation survey promises to continue last year's debate on the link between R&D spending and corporate performance.

The new system developed over the past six years by Chalmers University of Technology has notched up its first exit.

A French start-up is joining forces with Microsoft to enlarge its innovative multiplatform datas and services engines to .Net environment.

The head of Microsoft’s Cambridge lab outlines the strategy: to scout the science world for new software markets.

Traditional innovation has been about creating something new that an individual can pay for. That’s no longer enough, says Mats Williander.