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There is more to smart government spending than just getting value for money. How about supporting innovation too?

An early pioneer of innovation tries again to spin out its own ideas.

The UK's Department of Trade and Industry has £80 milion to give away. Is your technology in their sights?

Why not take a trip to Brighton to network with some spin-out agents? We'll be there.

A Chicago merchant bank will take a new twist on selling intellectual property next week when it holds a live auction to sell 400-plus patents from some of the most valued technology innovators in the world. Lori Valigra looks at the list.

The Scottish Funding Council has put up £870,000 in an initiative to provide a single point of access for matching the know-how within the country's 20 universities and research institutions with the needs of small- and medium-sized enterprises.

The UK budget last week set out measures to extract more value, improve quality and increase innovation from the billions the government spends on science. Nuala Moran looks into the small print.

Philippe Pouletty is on a roll. One by one, the serial entrepreneur with a penchant for provocative lobbying is seeing his ideas become official French policy. But not everyone is pleased.

A Linköpings Tekniska Högskola spin-out has developed plug-in devices for the direct production of 3D animations. The company is now looking for a first private funding round.

Endorsed - if lukewarmly - by Europe's leaders, the plan for a "European Institute of Technology", now goes to the back rooms in Brussels for more cooking.

How do you take a pill before you wake up? Denmark's Egalet has found an answer, and is looking for partners to help develop it.

Romania is stepping up attempts to grow its R&D base and promote innovation with the opening an Office for Science and Technology in Brussels.

In a funk after years of stagnation and high unemployment, Germany is looking to an unlikely alliance between football and R&D to kick start the economy.

The Semiconductor Industry Association in the USA is worried that the country will lose its "leadership in innovation and technology".

Napatech, a Danish company that specialised in raising the speed of Internet network appliances, said it has received $5 million from Ferd Venture, Northzone Ventures and existing shareholder DTU Innovation, a fund which is related to the Danish Technical University.

The latest budget for the UK continued the Chancellor's role as puppetmaster for science and technology.

Who should benefit from the transfer of technology from the academic world into the business arena? The university that cooked up the ideas, or the company that turned them into money? How about society as a whole? An American Prof warns against micro managing the process.

If your business isn't in a technology cluster, you have every reason to feel an outsider.

Tectonic shifts in the patent landscape could follow on from high-profile lawsuits challenging what can be protected by a patent and how patents are enforced that are due to be heard by the US Supreme Court this month.

The competition to lure biotech investors and know-how is heating up in US states - and so are the legal battles between over fair and unfair incentives.