Funding policy

The EU still has not learned basic lessons about innovation from its US competition. Professors Gunnar Landgren and Ramon Wyss, both instrumental in the formation of EIT Knowledge and Innovation Communities, explain how to remedy the European innovation paradox

European Commission makes a fresh attempt to increase the flow of investment for innovative SMEs, by tapping sources outside banks. The ultimate aim is to make public markets the main source of corporate funding

The notion that resources should be shifted from physics to climate change research is wrong-headed, says Professor David Wark in his address to the British Association Festival of Science.

The UK budget last week set out measures to extract more value, improve quality and increase innovation from the billions the government spends on science. Nuala Moran looks into the small print.