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The US and European patent offices have launched a trial of the Patent Prosecution Highway, a scheme they say will speed up the granting of patents.

The European Security and Research Innovation Forum presented its interim agenda for a single programme of research to improve security while protecting civil rights and creating single market for security products.

The Wellcome Trust has put £5 million into a new scheme to enable clinicians to do academic research alongside care of patients.

The UK Technology Strategy Board is going halves with industry on projects that aim to capture difficult or complex environments such as on the sea bed.

The pan-European biotech industry association has called for an end to the ten-year ban on genetically modified crop approvals.

Who’s going to rescue the lab that’s come up with a smart, commercially viable invention, or a start-up looking for second stage financing?

Should European governments favour open source software when they hold tenders for public contracts? Economists and policy makers appear to think so.

Rather than duplicate efforts, member states should identify priority areas where Europe can compete globally, says the Commission.

Finland’s VTT Technical Research Centre is to coordinate an EU project on methods for producing pharmaceutical compounds in plant cells.

Unilever opened a centre of excellence for Assembled Foods, a global development centre for products such as ready meals, salads, snacks and bakery goods.