Nuala Moran

Less than 18 months since the policy was put in place, the UK government is reviewing progress on its approach to nanotechnology.

Top materials scientist Eicke Weber has been lured back to Germany from the US after 23 years, to take over at the helm of the Fraunhofer’s Institute of Solar Energy.

The Health Research Board of Ireland is to join the consortium of UK research funders developing a single gateway to the largest pool of patients in the world.

Germany's academic spin-outs are not such a force for developing the economy after all, according to an in depth study of 20 of their number.

Finland wants to use its six months presiding over the EU to change innovation policy. It picks up the gauntlet at a meeting of competition ministers next week.

TeGenero, the company behind the drug trial fiasco that put six healthy volunteers into intensive care, has announced it is filing for insolvency.

The claim that European public opinion contributes to the technology gap between the US and Europe is invalid, according to the latest Eurobarometer survey.

The EU's attempt to reduce the amount of animal testing became more concrete last week with the publication of an action programme.

The UK government has announced the formation of two further Enterprise Capital Funds, one more than it intended to set up in the first phase of the programme.

The European Commission launched a nine-week internet consultation with experts and the public, soliciting views on how to improve the welfare of laboratory animals.