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David Alcock of the Patent Attorneys D Young & Co addresses concerns that a recent patent judgment undermines the concept of evergreening, even though Tate & Lyle’s US patents to Sucralose are valid.

Academic entrepreneurs from across Europe were named last night as the winners of the inaugural Academic Enterprise Awards 2008, at a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden.

Select companies can still find funding from venture capitalists and the public market; others are using the depressed economy to cut costs.

US genomics firm Myriad Genetics regains limited rights to BRCA1 breast cancer gene on final appeal.

A new “Bretton Woods” should lead to the creation of a World Knowledge Fund with a mission to bridge the global knowledge gap.

The first seminar on how to select and format the EIT’s Knowledge and Innovation Communities was held in Bratislava this week.

The Karolinska Institute’s technology commercialisation reported a strong initial take-up of a new share issue to raise money to develop portfolio companies.

Dublin emerged as victor in the competition to be European City of Science and will host the Euroscience Open Forum in 2012.

IBM is to set up a computing research “collaboratory” in Dublin, creating 40 jobs at IBM and local universities, supported by the Irish government through IDA Ireland.

Governments need to increase international cooperation and strengthen links between public research bodies and industry, says a new OECD report.

Bosnia and Herzegovina have signed a memorandum of understanding with the European Commission, allowing full access to the 7th Research Framework Programme.