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The European Patent Office has launched a €16 million plan to try to ensure that the intellectual property rights newly enshrined in China are upheld.

Research institutions and companies in Estonia can now apply for national support in preparing projects and submitting bids for EU-funded research programmes, including reimbursement of VAT costs.

The Commission will not object to France fudning a programme on personal management of multimedia data for the internet and mobile telephony.

The controversy over embryonic stem cell research will not dissipate until the technology proves itself in the clinic. Now the regulators have to move, say Science|Business’s Nuala Moran.

In 2007, the UK’s largest retail chemists chain set up a dedicated centre at Swansea University to promote open innovation. One year on, the first product is about to hit the market.