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The European Commission is proposing a compromise to break decades of deadlock in the effort to create a European Union-wide patent.

Universities in the UK plan to show off their wares to bioscience and pharmaceutical companies.

Does it really help to have media stars along to launch your reports?

As Science|Business launches its report on demand-driven innovation, we take a look how two universities are changing their structures in a bid to become innovation friendly.

A venture capital company based in Switzerland and the Cayman Islands has raised €45 million, a record for a VC devoted exclusively to emerging nanotechnology.

The Kremlin opened bidding this week on a new venture-capital programme to kick-start the country’s technology sector. And it starts with full pockets.

Politicians are great gamblers – but the EC President is playing for high stakes by wagering all on the creation of a European Institute of Technology.

Gene therapy is poised to make a commercial breakthrough after Oxford BioMedica agreed global rights for a cancer treatment with Sanofi-Aventis, in a deal with a headline value of €518 million.

Singapore became the first state to ratify a new international agreement on trademarks concluded a year ago under the auspices of World Intellectual Property Organization.

The UK agri-food giant Tate & Lyle has chosen Lille, France, as the site for its new European research and development centre.