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In 2007 the Swiss National Science Foundation awarded grants worth a total of CHF 531 million, and despite record application numbers the success rate increased.

UK researchers from Imperial College and Bristol University are to study the development of research management as a profession.

Finnish researcher Jyrki Ali-Yrkkö, of the Helsinki School of Economics, has shown it is possible to increase the R&D activities of companies through public funding.

Record venture capital and heated deal environment propelled biotechnology industry forward in 2007, says Ernst & Young’s biotech report for last year.

France’s research minister wants to split the country’s main research agency into six – and take way its role in biology and computer science.

Ireland’s largest-ever healthcare venture capital fund is making its optimistic debut as one of the UK’s longest-standing VC supporters of high tech start-ups calls it quits. So what’s happening?

The UK Technology Strategy Board has published its three-year strategic plan and outlined how it will promote and invest in technology-driven innovation.

Five of the UK’s major funders of animal research will make compliance with their guidelines a condition of funding for new grants involving the use of animals.

The European Commission has launched a public consultation to inform a move to modernise and simplify the legislation on medical devices.