Innovation

Science is the route out of the first financial crisis of the new global age, says Britain’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

More attention needs to be paid to increasing the ability of cities and regions to absorb innovation, says Sami Mahroum from the UK’s National Endowment for Science, Technology and Arts, and academic colleagues.

Sweden is the most competitive economy as measured by the European Union Lisbon criteria, followed by Denmark, Finland and the Netherlands, according to the World Economic Forum’s The Lisbon Review 2008.

They both come armed with broad plans to stimulate innovation, but the U.S. presidential hopefuls may face their own funding gap amid the flailing economy.

The UK government’s minor concession on an 80 per cent increase in capital gains tax on selling start-ups won’t win back entrepreneurs

Plans to create a European Research Area put too much stress on research and not enough on innovation, says the Eureka secretariat.

The ESRC is spending lots of money to find out how innovation works/

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.