| 5%: the private sector raises its game 6 September 2006 A survey has revealed that European companies are set to raise their spending... |
| 3 billion receivers by 2020: GPS with everything? 2 August 2006 Europe's Galileo GPS system aims to be serving over 3 billion recievers by... |
| €4.05 billion: nuclear funding goes critical 12 July 2006 Although the EU has cut its FP7 spending plans from €70 billion to €50 billion,... |
| 8%: the healthcare cost of obesity 28 June 2006 According to the WHO, over one billion people are overweight or obese. And what... |
| $12 billion: India's share of the patent market? 14 June 2006 Producing a patent is an expensive business. No wonder, then, that some... |
| 172 firms: European biotech companies outnumber US counterparts 31 May 2006 There are 2163 biotech companies in Europe, compared to 1991 in the US,... |
| €54 billion: Europe seeks to raise the bar 17 May 2006 European Union funding has helped bring technologies such as GSM, smart cards... |
| €12 billion: the annual global turnover of the wind farm industry 3 May 2006 And, as rising oil prices and environmental concerns raise the profile of... |
| 17%: the increase in the revenues of public biotech companies in 2005 13 April 2006 Painful consolidation and restructuring has created a significantly stronger... |
| 6.8%: the percentage of GDP that Sweden invests in knowledge 30 March 2006 Europe | Sweden
The OECD has just unleashed the latest edition of its OECD Fact Book, a...
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| $240m: the price of business? 16 March 2006 The competition to lure biotech investors and know-how is heating up in US... |
| The rush for Chinese protection 2 March 2006 Intellectual property | China
25.7%. The annual rate of increase in patent applications by foreign companies...
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| International patents filed in 2005 highest in 3 decades 16 February 2006 Patents
134,073: the number of patents filed for via the Patent Cooperation Treaty in...
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| Job creation: Irish companies are the ‘most aggressive’ in Europe 2 February 2006 Europe
Ireland's fastest-growing companies hired even more aggressively than other top...
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| Biotech crop growth in 2005 slowest ever, ISAAA reports 19 January 2006 Biotechnology | Agriculture
The annual growth of biotech cultivation grew last year at its slowest pace...
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| OECD countries spent more on health since 1970, OECD report says 5 January 2006 Health spending | OECD
8.8 per cent: The proportion of GDP that OECD countries spend on...
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| Universities out of touch with industry, say companies 8 December 2005 Innovation
The proportion of UK business that believe academics do not understand business...
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| Where US start-ups get their money: principal funding sources for US start-ups, 2004 24 November 2005 Investing | Start-ups
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| Business incubators: An Anglo-German affair 10 November 2005 Reports of incubators' demise were premature... |
| Does R&D matter? 27 October 2005 Research-intensive companies outperform the FTSE average Source: UK Dept.... |
