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A record 36,471 international trademark applications were received in 2006 by the World Intellectual Property Organisation.

A draft European law to fight counterfeiting and piracy has been narrowed to exclude patent infringements – but many other legitimate activities look set to be criminalised.

Microsoft’s Jean-Philippe Courtois thinks Europe is an innovative place. But, he says, there are some clear gaps.

Is MIT really that special? Does it have lessons for others? A recent paper says that you have to line up a bunch of related factors – scientific, organisational, regional and so on. Picking them off one at a time won’t work.

A tale of two cities: as the industry in Lyon trumpeted the benefits of biotech, MEPs in Strasbourg looked the other way, and declined to debate them

A new study claims that meeting the EU’s biofuels target would spur a huge increase in food imports – and contribute to deforestation in less developed countries.

The Finnish nanotechnology industry is in a boom phase, with the number of companies involved in the sector growing by 111 per cent in the past two years.

Embryonic stem cell lines should be eligible to be granted both method and product patents, according to Swedish and US researchers writing in an international journal.