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As the EU ponders an Innovation Act, the UK Business Secretary Peter Mandelson gave budding entrepreneurs his view of what government can bring to innovation.

Venture capitalists are once again taking a shine to Cleantech, emboldened by the highly successful IPO of a battery company and huge amounts of stimulus funding.

Two Framework Programme 6 (FP6) schemes specifically devised to promote the development of the European Research Area failed to deliver, according to a new report.

The central priority of the EU’s new Innovation Policy should be utilising research “rapidly and powerfully” for societal and development benefit, say business leaders in a new report.

Roche has granted Russian start-up Viriom Ltd a licence to develop and commercialise potential novel treatments for HIV/AIDS patients in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan.

The commercial imperative is undermining basic research and threatening the university ethos according to an independent body, says a new report.

The Alsace BioValley cluster has launched SHIP-In, a project to develop induced pluripotent stem cells for use in drug discovery.

The UK Technology Strategy Board (TSB) will invest £39.5 million across six calls in the next six months, in areas from regenerative medicine to low carbon housing.

Microsoft and Tilburg University in the Netherlands have entered into a four-year agreement in which Microsoft will support the research of the Tilburg Law and Economics Centre.