Search

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.

It’s easy to produce papers and make recommendations, says former Finnish prime minister Esko Aho. Now we need practical results.

YouTube, MySpace – those are some of the hottest properties on the Internet these days. They may also be the working definition of demand-side innovation,

European pharma and biotech companies are behind the US. But in one shining area, Europe has outpaced the US in creating a new sector: biosimilars.

The latest buzzword among Brussels technocrats is “lead markets”. And it’s going to be put into action, on an experimental basis, in 2007.