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The new fund will cooperate with High-Tech Gründerfonds in supporting new companies in and around Hamburg

The next frontier in outsourcing opens up as university scientists contract online for laboratories to carry out their experiments

A new partnership must be forged to ensure that resources are developed as quickly and as cost efficiently as possible

When the US Congress reconvenes next month, the Patent Reform Act of 2011 - the first major overhaul of the American patent system since 1952 - will be top of its agenda.

This is the UK’s largest ever investment in translational health research. The 31 separate awards include funding for four new Biomedical Research Units, specialising in dementia research.

The European Commission has put in an additional €12 million from Framework Programme 7 to increase Europe’s capacity for tackling epidemics

The European Food Safety Authority has opened a public consultation on its proposals for regulating food from genetically modified animals

Global R&D investment by companies in Europe will grow by 5 per cent per year from 2011 to 2013, but most of this will be spent outside the EU

The UK government accepted all ten recommendations made in an independent review of IP published earlier this year, and said it will push hard on the single EU patent