Nuala Moran

Six advanced computing projects have been shortlisted to compete for EU Flagship status and access to total funding of €1 billion. The six have been awarded €1.5 million each to develop their programmes before two winners are selected in 12 months time

Building on its heritage as a former technology transfer office, Imperial Innovations is now applying its £160M cash mountain to redraw the landscape for academic spin-outs

MEPs want to establish conditions where anyone can innovate. But evidence suggests such a protected environment won’t promote entrepreneurialism

In a new initiative, the European Research Council is to offer its grant holders more money to carry out proof of concept work and speed basic research to market

The European Patent Office and Google have today (24 March) signed a long term agreement and unveiled more details of the plan to set up a machine translation service for patents

It’s central to much of modern drug discovery that a protein’s structure determines its function. Now that paradigm is breaking down, with the discovery of disordered proteins that have many different functions

A year after Science|Business highlighted the hurdles that stand in the way of deploying personalised medicine there has been progress, even if some barriers remain in place

As the second tranche of projects in the €2 billion Innovative Medicines Initiative was announced this week, a quick stock take of progress to date hints at what this wide-ranging collaboration could deliver

The European Court of Justice has thrown a huge spanner into the plans for a single Court to deal with patent disputes, saying it is incompatible with EU law

John Holdren, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology, told ScienceBusiness the large one-off increase in science funding in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 has delivered in terms of new facilities and research outputs.