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Massachusetts is better placed than any state in the US to achieve high-quality economic growth, according to a study by the Milken Institute.

The business intelligence software company Business Objects is to invest €29 million in establishing an R&D Centre in Ireland employing 100 researchers.

Professor Geneviève Berger, who led France’s CNRS between 2000 and 2003, has been appointed as Unilever’s chief R&D officer.

Manchester University has won €5 million to begin joint planning of how millions of samples can be managed and made available to research scientists across Europe.

Edinburgh Instruments has made its first sale of a new product containing technology developed in an ITI R&D programme, triggering a royalty payment to ITI.

The Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases and the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development are to jointly develop new medicines for tuberculosis.

Europe has started doing better in IT research but still has a lot more to do to capitalise on the results, says a report by former Finnish Prime Minister Esko Aho.

The European Commission has published its Small Business Act for Europe in a bid to cut red tape and establish a new pan-European company structure.

The Council of Ministers is to provide €100 million from the EU’s 7th Framework Programme to boost research capacities of SMEs in Europe.

Two days were reserved by the European Patent Office to hear an appeal over the application for a stem cell patent. But only one was needed in the end.

After months of lobbying, the Hungarian capital was chosen as headquarters for the European Institute of Technology and Innovation.

GE’s R&D centre in Munich is a European hub for Open Innovation. The head of the Centre, Carlos Härtel, describes the philosophy that drives its research to Science|Business’s Peter Wrobel.