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A survey of 449 European businesses shows that they plan to increase their spending on R&D by 5% a year for the next three years.

Public procurement should be used to stimulate innovation using a US model that has proved itself over 25 years, says a report from the University of Cambridge, UK.

Weighing conflicting views of the outlook for European biotechnology was the object of a conference 13 June at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm.

SMEs are the target for a new "portal" on the European Nanotechnology Gateway, nanoforum.org

In a landmark deal for Asia, the first takeover of European biotech firms by a counterpart in Singapore has been finalised.

Asian R&D is hot. Witness our summertime sampling of news tidbits – some important, some just bizarre.

The US Department of Energy plans to put $1.4 million for studies on the economic feasibility of producing hydrogen at nuclear plants.

Not quite the newest technology on the block, but a new Chinese factory is ramping up productuion of tiny particles.

Google has so many irons in the fire that it is not always easy to keep track of its projects. This is definitely not the case of the Google Library project, which proposes to scan the content of great libraries of the world and make them accessible to on-line search.

Unlike old generals, drug-patent wars not only do not die but do not even fade away. As reported by Reuters and other major media, on Monday, August 7, hundreds of Thais living with HIV/AIDS demonstrated in front of the Bangkok offices of drug maker GlaxoSmithKline to protest a patent application for its key anti-retroviral drug, Combid.

The nuclear industry really is interested in playing a role in the hydrogen economy, and meets regularly to review progress.

The UK's Small Business Investment Taskforce has looked into funding for high-tech businesses.

Would you trust a web search to deliver the evidence needed to change the law? That's an accusation made against the EU.

Is the UK really neglecting a clean source of energy? Before throwing money into fuel cells, potential investors might like to ask where the energy comes from.

The Department of Trade and Industry has set out a new set of priorities for its investment in R&D. The usual mixed bag, with a nod towards climate change.

It is a hard life being an electronics business, they just keep changing the science under you. This time around we have a combination of electronics and spin – and that has nothing to do with PR.

An interesting set of deals bring together major companies and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council in a new model for academic/industry collaboration.

The UK government said it will contribute £16 million to a £32 million programme aimed at ensuring the safe operation of unmanned aviation vehicles (UAV) in civil airspace.

The GREAT Consortium has been set up to design a mass market receiver for Galileo, Europe's new global satellite navigation system that is due to come into operation in 2012.

The European Commission adopted new rules for investing public money in small private companies that it says will make it easier for start-ups to raise risk capital.