Rhea Wessel

Germany’s car industry is the country’s biggest spender on R&D. What will the catastrophic state of the industry mean for innovation budgets?

Why does Germany have such an under developed venture capital market? Science|Business speaks to Rolf Dienst, one of the country’s most prominent VCs.

Speed – and staying close to the customer – is the key to commercialising new materials for electronics. But you can’t do this in Europe, says Thomas Geelhaar, head of R&D at Merck Chemicals.

Thomas Geelhaar, Head of Chemicals R&D at Merck in Darmstadt, Germany, describes how the company scouts for technologies and interacts with universities.

German science is on a high, as new elite universities are named a week after bagging the physics and chemistry Nobels.

The proposed merger of two Karlsruhe institutions could lead the way to greater international prestige for Germany’s universities.

Just three German universities are to get top funding as "elite" research institutions – concentrating resources on a few winners in a national contest to boost R&D and attract international investment.

A small number of German universities will next week receive a large boost in fame and fortune as Germany seeks to restore the fortunes of its science.

The Hungarian biotech sector is ahead of the rest of the new European Union member states pack, but it remains stymied by a lack of managers with a scientific background.

Germany is poised to begin the great sell-off of its university hospitals. What will this mean for the research and development they carry out?